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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Do you have what it takes to be a hardware hacker? If you ask Yago Hansen, a hacker specialized in Wi-Fi and...

Researchers have uncovered another batch of malicious Python libraries hosted on Python Package Index (PyPI). The malicious packages PyPI is the official third-party software repository for Python...

The Iran-linked Chafer threat group has used a new Python-based backdoor in November 2018 attacks targeting a Turkish government entity, Palo Alto Networks reveals.  read more

It's no secret that learning how to code is one of the most important things you can do when it comes to the beginning or furthering practically any career in programming and technology. The only...

Not for the first time, typosquatting malware made its way into an open source code repository.

Hackers have an obvious predilection for Python-based attack tools, says Imperva. “When examining the use of Python in attacks against sites we protect, the result was unsurprising – a large...

Imperva: Up to 77 percent of the sites we monitor were attacked by a Python-based tool.

More than 20 percent of GitHub repositories containing an attack tool or an exploit proof of concept (PoC) are written in Python.

A ransomware family used in attacks in July and August was posing as the infamous Locky ransomware that was highly active in 2016, Trend Micro researchers have discovered.  read more

Proofpoint announced three people-centric security innovations, including Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Isolation for personal webmail and browsing defense, threat detection, and new Threat...