In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

Back in the olden days, if you wanted to learn how to program a computer, you used the BASIC interpreter stored in ROM. This is how an entire generation of devs learned how to program. Now, home ...

Telegram fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its Windows desktop application that could be used to bypass security warnings and automatically launch Python scripts. Over the past few days, rumors have ...

Researchers at cloud forensics and incident response platform startup Cado Security Ltd. today announced details of a recently discovered Python-based credential harvester and hacking tool. Dubbed ...

Black Hat Python is a clear winner in the field of books for security professionals. Written for people who want to move into the hacking and penetration testing fields and fully understand what ...

Security researchers have found a way to reverse the effects of an NSA hacking utility that deletes event logs from compromised machines. Last week, Fox-IT published a Python script that recovers ...

The tools used by security researchers, penetration testers, and "red teams" often spark controversy because they package together, and automate, attacks to a degree that make some uncomfortable—and ...