Security researchers have discovered a simple and troubling way for attackers to distribute malicious payloads via the PyPI package repository. All that the technique involves is re-registering a ...

The largest software registry of Node.js packages, npm, has disclosed multiple security flaws that were identified and remedied recently. The first flaw concerns leak of names of private npm packages ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

Last week, a researcher demonstrated a new supply-chain attack that executed counterfeit code on networks belonging to some of the biggest companies on the planet, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla included ...

As an alternative to rewriting the same code, many software development environments provide a library tool that organizes frequently used code. Once developers finish debugging some reusable code, ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

Aqua Security says PowerShell issue can allow attacks involving registration of malicious packages with names similar to existing popular package names when developers make mistakes. Researchers are ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...