Techzine Europe

GitHub and PyPI are delaying updates to reduce attackers’ opportunities

GitHub and PyPI are implementing new measures to better protect software developers against attacks via the software supply ...

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to ...
SecurityWeek

New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security

GitHub’s Dependabot waits three days before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 ...
Bleeping Computer

PyPI suspends new user registration to block malware campaign

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has temporarily suspended user registration and the creation of new projects to deal with an ongoing malware campaign. PyPI is an index for Python projects that helps ...
ZDNet

Developers, watch your code: Official Python repository spread malicious projects

PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software ...
ZDNet

Python programming: PyPl is rolling out 2FA for critical projects, giving away 4,000 security keys

PyPI or the Python Package Index is giving away 4,000 Google Titan security keys as part of its move to mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for critical projects built in the Python programming ...
Ars Technica

Malware downloaded from PyPI 41,000 times was surprisingly stealthy

PyPI—the open source repository that both large and small organizations use to download code libraries—was hosting 11 malicious packages that were downloaded more than 41,000 times in one of the ...