Webocalypse Averted: How a Stealthy Backdoor Almost Crashed the Internet
Beware the Backdoor: XZ utils’ Near-Miss with Cyber Catastrophe! Luckily, a sharp-eyed Microsoft engineer caught the sneaky code, thwarting a web-wide wipeout. But the scare spotlights the Achilles’ heel of FOSS—a comedy of errors sans the laughs.
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Compression tools with a sneaky backdoor? That's not the kind of 'compression' we were hoping for, folks. But fear not, because our caped coding crusader from Microsoft swooped in to save the day, uncovering the digital underbelly of XZ utils before chaos could unzip across the web. Buckle up, because we're about to take a wild ride through the open-source jungle, where the vines are code and the bugs definitely bite.Already a member? Log in here