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S2 Ep22: Word doc stops fraud, bye bye Python 2, latest from the ransomware swamp – Naked Security Podcast
2020-01-09 12:25

This week we discuss the IT exec who scammed his employer out of $6m with fake invoices and the death of Python. Peter also shares two of his latest investigations from the ransomware swamp.

Python is dead. Long live Python!
2020-01-03 14:56

Given that Python 2 has been replaced by Python 3 without any interruption, and given that nothing bad happened when Python 1 switched over to Python 2 around the turn of the millennium, why is the "Death" of Python 2 such a big deal now? When Python 2 came along, it was a natural progresion from Python 1, and software written in Python 1 was, essentially, already valid Python 2.

Machine-raiding Python libraries squashed by community
2019-12-05 16:55

Python developers have once again fallen victim to malicious software libraries lurking in their favourite package manager.

Saturn Cloud Dask: A Python-native parallel computing framework for scalable data science
2019-12-03 02:30

Saturn Cloud, a provider of data science tools, announced it has launched the first-ever commercial offering of Dask, a Python-native parallel computing framework for scalable data science. This...

Threat Stack Application Security Monitoring now supported by Python
2019-11-01 04:00

Threat Stack, the leader in cloud security and compliance for infrastructure and applications, announced Python support for Threat Stack Application Security Monitoring. Included with no...

Python support added to Threat Stack's Application Security Monitoring tool
2019-10-30 14:14

The utility can identify insecure code in production from third-party packages as well as original code.

JPMorgan's Athena has 35 million lines of Python code, and won't be updated to Python 3 in time
2019-09-12 16:26

With 35 million lines of Python code, the Athena trading platform is at the core of JPMorgan's business operations. A late start to migrating to Python 3 could create a security risk.

Week in review: Malicious Python packages, FaceApp panic, and how to avoid a biometric dystopia
2019-07-21 15:35

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...

Malicious Python packages found on PyPI
2019-07-18 11:53

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...

Iran-Linked Hackers Use Python-Based Backdoor in Recent Attacks
2019-03-05 15:30

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