Working with GitHub, they found 2.87 million open-source files which contained Python’s tarfile module in about 588,000 unique repositories — 61% of which, or 350,000, were vulnerable to being ...

A vulnerability in abandoned Python open source repository projects could allow over 20,000 packages of code to be hijacked to spread malware in supply chain attacks.. The warning for developers ...

Attackers use typo-squatting, obfuscation, and fake accounts to slip Python-based malware into open-source projects, raising ...

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository of third-party open-source Python projects announced plans to mandate two-factor authentication requirement for maintainers of ...

Just 11 per cent are viable A recent analysis of 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four ecosystems found that only about 11 per cent of projects were actively maintained.

PyPI, a vital repository for open source developers, temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any ...

They also have 61 external developers contributing to the open source project, which is helping speed up development for a young company with limited engineering resources, and helping drive interest.

Sigstore is already one of the fasted adopted open source projects ever, with more than 4 million signatures logged so far. Both the Kubernetes and Python communities use it to sign their releases.