A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

Python Development Master taps new features in Python to manage a project’s packages without the overhead imposed by a virtual environment. Modern Python developers use virtual environments, or “venvs ...

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 ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious packages ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

Ando (2024) proposes a systematic approach, but a user-friendly package to implement it has not been developed. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a Python package, macroframe-forecast, that ...

The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the ...

Damien Irving, a weather and climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, discusses the software and tools that he finds most useful in his research. I’m currently rushing around in ...