PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

Python has some wonderful libraries for statistical analysis, but they might be overkill for simple tasks. The built-in statistics library might be what you want instead. Here are some things you can ...

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

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 ...

The disclosure comes as HelixGuard discovered a malicious package in PyPI named "spellcheckers" that claims to be a tool for checking spelling errors using OpenAI Vision, but contains malicious code ...

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

Researchers found three malicious PyPI packages, two targeting bitcoin developers, and one WooCommerce stores Two are designed to steal data, and the third to test for valid credit cards All three ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.