April 14, 2024, 3:57 a.m. | Abdul Issa

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XZ Backdoor — Breaching Trust in Open-Source Collaborative Development

What The Open-Source Community Can Learn From This Incident

XZ Backdoor — CVE-2024–3094 (Source: Snyk.io)

If you have been reading security feeds, news sites, Reddit or Discord discussions, you would have undoubtedly read about the recent vulnerability in open-source software XZ Utils that has shocked the cybersecurity community. We will explore what it is and why this was significant enough to cause a buzz in the industry.

In March 2024, a …

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