Five elements of proactive patching
As the industry relies more on open source software, it really needs to take a more proactive stance on patching vulnerabilities.
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Why Near-Miss Cyberattack Put US Officials and Tech Industry on Edge
German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little-known program.
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Why Near-Miss Cyberattack Put US Officials and Tech Industry on Edge
German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little-known program.
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US avoids 'digital security crisis' after developer uncovers sabotage in software
German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program. What he found when he investigated has sent shudders across the software world and drawn attention from tech executives and government officials. Freund, who works for Microsoft out of San Francisco, discovered
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Why a near-miss cyberattack put US officials and the tech industry on edge
WASHINGTON :German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program. What he found when he investigated has sent shudders across the software world and drawn attention from tech executives and government officials.Fr
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One engineer's curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack | John Naughton
In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech
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Why a near-miss cyberattack put US officials and the tech industry on edge
German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program. What he found when he investigated has sent shudders across the software world and drawn attention from tech executives and government officials. Freund, who works for Microsoft out of San Francisco, discovered that the latest version of the open source software program XZ Utils had been deliberately sabotaged by one of its developers, a move th...
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US avoids 'digital security crisis' after developer uncovers software sabotage
A Microsoft software developer reportedly uncovered a deliberate act of sabotage within a program, sparking alarm among tech leaders and U.S. government officials.
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Why a near-miss cyberattack put US officials and the tech industry on edge, ET Telecom
Cyberattack: Security experts say its only because Freund spotted the change before the latest version of XZ had been widely deployed that the world was spared a digital security crisis.
Source: indiatimes.com
Curious engineer catches backdoor in Linux compression package
Patient threat actor nearly got attack into the software supply chain.
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