[Stefan] was nervous about putting the secret key for his Amazon Web Services account in his config file. In the security world, storing passwords in plain text is considered a very bad thing. but ...

A new feature proposal for the Python programming language wants to add "transparency" to the runtime and let security and auditing tools view when Python may be running potentially dangerous ...

Python 2.7.9, the latest bugfix release for the 2.x branch of the language, landed earlier today. In keeping with 2.x being in maintenance mode and the 3.x branch as the preference, this version adds ...

Barely a week has passed from the last attempt to hide a backdoor in a code library, and we have a new case today. This time around, the backdoor was found in a Python module, and not an npm ...