An Anonymous Coder Nearly Hacked A Massive Chunk Of The Internet. How Worrisome Is It
The XZ Utils hack attempt took advantage of the way open-source software development often works. Canberra: Outside the world of open-source software, it’s likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security experts uncovered a serious and deliberate …