npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks

By info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor authentication (2FA) challenge to approve