The pace of modern software development requires code reuse, and effective code reuse requires code repositories. These collections of code fragments, functions, libraries, and modules allow ...
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 ...
An apparently school-age hacker based in Verona, Italy, has become the latest to demonstrate why developers need to pay close attention to what they download from public code repositories these days.