security – FAS Research Computing https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu .HARVARD UNIVERSITY | FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:09:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/small_twitter-200x200.png security – FAS Research Computing https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu 32 32 59814611 Security advisory regarding Python/Conda/pip/PyPI https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/security-advisory-03012021/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:09:29 +0000 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/?p=23882 AUDIENCE: All Python/Conda users IMPACT: Potential malicious packages installed or malware downloaded Numerous packages containing malware/malicious links have been uploaded to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository. Many of these have names which are slight misspellings of the names of other packages. The intention is to cause an installation of one of these packages if the package name is mistyped…

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