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 ...

Microsoft updates its Python extension for VS Code with fixes for two security flaws and easier interpreter selection.

Python is even behind Netflix's Security Monkey tool, as well as a project called Prism, which helps identify vulnerabilities in source code.

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint.

The campaign has been monitored since early April by analysts at Checkmarx's Supply Chain Security team, who discovered 272 packages with code for stealing sensitive data from targeted systems.

If you’re a programmer using ChatGPT to write or analyze Python code, be very careful about the URLs you paste into the generative AI tool, as there's a way for hackers to steal sensitive data ...

Announced in early July, the security-driven consideration has been largely well received by Python’s community members, although one well-known developer opted to delete their code from PyPI ...

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 ...

Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready, new research from Veracode ...