GitHub has updated its security alerts feature this week to support Python projects, after previously supporting JavaScript and Ruby. The feature, which launched last November, works by analyzing a ...

The vast majority of security vulnerabilities in open-source projects reside in indirect dependencies rather than directly and first-hand loaded components. "Aggregating the numbers from all ...

Google has detailed some of the work done to find malicious code packages that have been sneaked into bigger open-source software projects. The Package Analysis Project is one of the software supply ...

The Node Package Manager (npm) team avoided a disaster today when it discovered and blocked the distribution of a cleverly hidden backdoor mechanism inside a popular —albeit deprecated— JavaScript ...