Research
Security News
Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
covid-dashboard-jadam
Advanced tools
This project aims to provide a simple, personalisable dashboard for Covid data and news. Users can schedule updates to the data and news stories on top of those that already automatically occur. They can also customise what area they receive Covid data for to, as well as what sort of news they receive.
Designed for Python 3.9 Sched and Flask modules Public Health England Covid data API module News Api module and key - can be gotten for free from https://newsapi.org/register
pip install schedule pip install Flask pip install uk-covid19 pip install NewsApi
Firstly you must open the config file and put your API key in for /key/. Next run main.py, this will start the server. The dashboard can now be accessed at http://127.0.0.1:5000/index. In order to change where Covid data is shown for, or what keywords are used to filter news stories, change the relevant lines in the config file
Author - James Adam
FAQs
A dashboard to display up to date covid data and news
We found that covid-dashboard-jadam demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Research
Security News
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
Security News
MITRE's 2024 CWE Top 25 highlights critical software vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection, and CSRF, reflecting shifts due to a refined ranking methodology.
Security News
In this segment of the Risky Business podcast, Feross Aboukhadijeh and Patrick Gray discuss the challenges of tracking malware discovered in open source softare.