60
Malicious PyPI Package ‘Fabrice’ Found Stealing AWS Keys from Thousands of Developers
(thehackernews.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
60 points (96.9% liked)
Cybersecurity
5683 readers
69 users here now
c/cybersecurity is a community centered on the cybersecurity and information security profession. You can come here to discuss news, post something interesting, or just chat with others.
THE RULES
Instance Rules
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- No Ads / Spamming.
- No pornography.
Community Rules
- Idk, keep it semi-professional?
- Nothing illegal. We're all ethical here.
- Rules will be added/redefined as necessary.
If you ask someone to hack your "friends" socials you're just going to get banned so don't do that.
Learn about hacking
Other security-related communities !databreaches@lemmy.zip !netsec@lemmy.world !cybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social !securitynews@infosec.pub !netsec@links.hackliberty.org !cybersecurity@infosec.pub !pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
Notable mention to !cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
VM's aren't great for development. The performance is poor and the DX is a pita so devs do dumb shit like mount their keys or entire home directory inside it negating the security benefits.
Thinking more along the lines of firejail seamlessly integrated with pip/venv/nvm/composer/whatever.
I think deno has greatly improved security sandboxing?
But yea you are 100% correct... It's always going to be a never ending arms race. The status quo is just ridiculous.
You're entirely correct. The Status quo sucks ass