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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

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What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago

Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

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