An unknown attacker slipped a malicious binary into the PyTorch machine learning project by registering a malicious project with the Python Package Index (PyPI), infecting users’ machines if they downloaded a nightly build between Dec. 25 and Dec. 30. The PyTorch Foundation stated in an advisory on Dec. 31 that the effort was a dependency…

6 Steps for Applying Data Science to Security

Security practitioners are being told that they have to get smarter about how they use data. The problem is that many data scientists are lost in their world of math and algorithms and don’t always explain the value they bring from a business perspective. Dr. Kenneth Sanford, analytics architect and sales engineering lead at Dataiku,…