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Python Package Index Distributes 4,000 Titan Keys For 2FA Security

Calendar Jul 12, 2022 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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4,000 Google Titan security keys should help to protect critical Python projects from software supply chain attacks.

PyPI or the Python Package Index is giving away 4,000 Google Titan security keys as part of its move to mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for critical projects built in the Python programming language.  

Python is one of the world's most popular programming languages, loved for its breadth of packages or add-on libraries that make it useful for data science. Developers need to update these packages frequently and attackers have used this behavior to backdoor their Windows, Linux and Apple machines through bogus packages that are similarly named to legitimate ones, otherwise known as software supply chain attacks.