A researcher going by the handle mschwager on GitHub demonstrated an attack method that abuses the 'setup.py' file in Python modules to perform code execution when the package is installed.

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Package Registry, a package management service integrated into GitHub that allows developers to publish private or public packages next to their source code.

Code hosting website GitHub announced today a new service for its customers that will allow developers and organizations an easy way to generate "packages" from their code. Packages are specially ...