The scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...

The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with Windows-only malware.

PyPI module 'ctx' that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack with malicious versions stealing the developer's environment variables. The ...

A new project from Anaconda delivers the Python runtime in a web page, via a single JS include, and with access to many popular Python packages. Anaconda, makers of the Python distribution for ...

ActiveState, the open source languages company and founding sponsor of the Python Software Foundation since 2001, announced today the immediate availability of a vastly expanded ActivePython 2.7.13 ...

Spread the love“`html As Python has surged in popularity among developers and data scientists, so has the importance of managing packages efficiently. At the heart of this management lies pip, the ...