You would think AI could create secure, random, and strong passwords, but that's not actually true. In many cases, ...

As supply-chain attacks against widely-used, open-source software repositories continue, experts are urging developers to not ...

Attackers published a malicious command-line version of the popular open-source password manager to the npm registry and may ...

Python is now central to many IT certifications, from penetration testing to advanced programming. Its broad capabilities make it valuable for cybersecurity, automation, and software development. With ...

May the best programmer win!

Last week, something alarming happened in the world of software — and almost nobody outside the tech industry noticed. A widely-used software library called LiteLLM, downloaded over 95 million times ...

A single unauthenticated connection gives attackers a full shell; credential theft observed in under three minutes on honeypot servers.

Password managers store your usernames, passwords and email addresses and protect them from unauthorized access. Beyond helping to generate strong passwords and sync them across all your devices, the ...

No more waiting on slow-loading modules or wasting time on ad hoc workarounds: Python 3.15’s new ‘lazy imports’ mechanism has you covered. When you import a module in Python, the module’s code must be ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

Penetration testing is an important part of cybersecurity that involves identifying vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications before attackers can exploit them. Ethical hackers and ...