Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer. Yet the fortunate find has led industry observers to conclude…#filippovalsorda #michałzalewski #snap #andresfreund #liblzma #xz #linux #fedoralinux #fedorarawhide #debianunstable
Source: Reuters: Health - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news