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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
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FauxFactory generates random data for your automated tests easily!
There are times when you're writing tests for your application when you need to pass random, non-specific data to the areas you are testing. For these scenarios when all you need is a random string, numbers, dates, times, email address, IP, etc, then FauxFactory can help!
The full documentation <http://fauxfactory.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html>
_ is available on
ReadTheDocs. It can also be generated locally::
pip install -r requirements-optional.txt
make docs-html
FAQs
Generates random data for your tests.
We found that fauxfactory demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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