A recent study found that more than a third of 1,261 open source libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted A study of how 31 popular open source code ...

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Tens of millions of products ranging from airport surveillance cameras, sensors, networking equipment and IoT devices are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to remotely gain control over ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The beauty of open source programming is that there are a lot of code libraries available to software application ...

One of the most important lessons I ever learned as a developer, although it took some time to sink in, was “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Understanding how to use libraries in Android Studio is a big ...

When a software lead sets out to build a new enterprise application, they must decide which set of libraries and frameworks they want to use. This begs an obvious question: What is the difference ...

The developer of a pair of widely used open-source code libraries sabotaged them in an apparent act of protest. Each library has been downloaded millions of times and is used in thousands of software ...

Allen talked to Nature from the sidelines of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Florida about the importance of maintaining code registries — and why she hopes other disciplines will ...

Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have yanked 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor mechanism and were caught inserting code that launched hidden ...