How modern infostealers target macOS systems, leverage Python‑based stealers, and abuse trusted platforms and utilities to ...

Abstract: The rise of quantum computing poses significant challenges to security systems, with traditional message authentication codes (MACs) at unprecedented risk of compromise. This paper proposes ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

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The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Do you receive login security codes for your online accounts via text message? These are the six- or seven-digit numbers sent via SMS that you need to enter along with your password when trying to ...

One-time SMS codes are widely used as the second checkpoint in two-factor authentication (2FA) to sign into everything from banking apps to email accounts. As I've written before, though, SMS is one ...

A major security incident has come to light involving the exposure of one million two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, revealing vulnerabilities in the authentication system widely used by major ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Every day, millions of people sign in to their email, banking app or social media accounts with both their password and a one-time login code they receive by text message. The codes often arrive with ...