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An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?
Code maintainers around the world are now thinking about their vulnerabilities at a strategic and tactical level. It is not only their code itself they will be worrying about, but also their code distribution mechanisms and software assembly processes.
A close call for the Linux community as major vulnerability detected
The big question now is who created the malware and what was their motivation for creating a security backdoor that could have compromised computer systems all over the world if it had been introduced into operating environments.