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picasawebalbums

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Top 10k
Provides programmatic access to Picasa Web Albums data.
License: unknown
Published: over 13 years ago
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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
No license compliance issues
Secrets
No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities detected
Hardening
No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering
No evidence of software tampering
Malware
No evidence of malware inclusion

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

Popularity

910.95k
Total Downloads
1
Contributor
0
Declared Dependencies
0
Dependents

Top issues

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Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community. it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of using components that are rarely used to build applications lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.
Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.
Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.
Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Open source communities depend on the work of thousands of software developers that volunteer their time to maintain software components. Software developers build up the reputation of their open source projects by developing in public. Modern source code repositories have many social features that allow software developers to handle bug reports, have discussions with their users, and convey reaching significant project milestones. It is uncommon to find open source projects that omit linking their component to a publicly accessible source code repository.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.
Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.
Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.
Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Top behaviors

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Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
1 packages
found in
Top 100
7 packages
found in
Top 1k
70 packages
found in
Top 10k
432 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
7 packages
found in
Top 100
44 packages
found in
Top 1k
373 packages
found in
Top 10k
3196 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
9 packages
found in
Top 100
54 packages
found in
Top 1k
561 packages
found in
Top 10k
7598 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
22 packages
found in
Top 100
94 packages
found in
Top 1k
1085 packages
found in
Top 10k
13008 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
17 packages
found in
Top 100
55 packages
found in
Top 1k
748 packages
found in
Top 10k
6987 packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for picasawebalbums

What is picasawebalbums?

Provides programmatic access to Picasa Web Albums data. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is picasawebalbums malicious or is it safe to use?

The Ruby package picasawebalbums was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. No risks were detected, therefore, this version of the package is currently considered as safe to use.

Is picasawebalbums popular?

The Ruby package picasawebalbums ranks among the top 10000 projects in this community. It has 911K recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure picasawebalbums once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how picasawebalbums behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a picasawebalbums version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

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