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It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership
Unlike the SolarWinds and CodeCov incidents, all that it took for an adversary to nearly pull off a massive supply chain attack was some slick social engineering and a string of pressure emails.
Malware smuggled into XZ Utils software highlights a bigger problem | The Economist explains
The internet is far less secure than it should be.
The repository of the open-source compression utility xz Utils, in which a backdoor was found prior to the Easter weekend, has now been restored to Gi...