Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first ...

In a new twist on software supply chain attacks, researchers have discovered a Python package hiding malware inside of compiled code, allowing it to evade ordinary detection measures. On April 17, ...

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Yes it can. In fact, many high-level languages are compiled like that including Common Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell. But you have to keep something in mind: C is not all that fast. Rather, C is ...

Scrubbing tokens from source code is not enough, as shown by the publishing of a Python Software Foundation access token with administrator privileges to a container image on Docker Hub. A personal ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...