Overcoming web scraping blocks: Best practices and considerations

By Owais Sultan
At its core, web scraping involves automatically extracting data from websites, enabling individuals and organizations to obtain valuable…
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Where to query for CVEs present in a version of a software project like npm packages of python modules?

In node, I can run npm audit and it will show me known vulnerabilities for the versions my dependencies are using.
That’s cool and all, but I’d like to be able to do the following, on some website or program or anything else:
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[SANS ISC] Show me All Your Windows!

Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Show me All Your Windows!“: It’s a key point for attackers to implement anti-debugging and anti-analysis techniques. Anti-debugging means the malware will try to detect if it’s being debugged (executed in a debugger or its execution is slower than expected). Anti-analysis refers

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VMCONNECT: Malicious PyPI Package Mimicking Common Python Tools

By Deeba Ahmed
Threat researchers at ReversingLabs, a software supply chain security and malware analysis platform, have discovered a malicious new PyPI…
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A New Educational Robotics Platform

When looking for electronics projects to use in educational settings, there is no shortage of simple, lightweight, and easily-accessible systems to choose from. From robotic arms, drones, walking robots, and …read more Continue reading A New Educational Robotics Platform

Python’s Steering Council Plans to Make Its ‘Global Interpreter Lock’ Optional

Python’s Global Interpreter Lock “allows only one thread to hold the control of the Python interpreter,” according to the tutorial site Real Python. (They add, “it can be a performance bottleneck in CPU-bound and multi-threaded code.”)

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Become an IT Expert with 180 Hours of Training for $19.97 During Back to School Sale

If you’re planning to build a business in IT, this bundle provides the ideal launchpad — and it’s only $19.97 from July 28th through August 13th. Continue reading Become an IT Expert with 180 Hours of Training for $19.97 During Back to School Sale