A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable

Lots of cables going into the back of a computer. One of the cables is a snake

2024-04-04    

On March 29th a lone security researcher announced that he had discovered, largely by chance, a secret backdoor in XZ Utils. This obscure but vital piece of software is incorporated into the Linux operating systems that control the world’s internet servers. Had the backdoor not been spotted in time, everything from critical national infrastructure to the website hosting your cat pictures would have been vulnerable.

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