When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, the moment when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint. The Python programming language allows ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

A security researcher and system administrator has developed a tool that can help users check for manifest mismatches in packages from the NPM JavaScript software registry. Last week, a former ...

Of all the reasons Python is a hit with developers, one of the biggest is its broad and ever-expanding selection of third-party packages. Convenient toolkits for everything from ingesting and ...

Counterfeit packages downloaded roughly 5,000 times from the official Python repository contained secret code that installed cryptomining software on infected machines, a security researcher has found ...

Researchers outline how the PhantomRaven campaign exploits hole in npm to enable software supply chain attacks.

Highly invasive malware targeting software developers is once again circulating in Trojanized code libraries, with the latest ones downloaded thousands of times in the last eight months, researchers ...

“I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming language, in 1989. But ...