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Proof-of-Concept Exploit affects Apple, Microsoft, and many others

Security researcher Alex Birsan has successfully demonstrated a potential supply chain attack, and in the process the proof-of-concept exploit was installed on systems in Apple, Microsoft and thirty three other companies. Multiple organisations have paid the researchers “bug bounties” totalling $130,000 so far for finding these vulnerabilities. Like other supply chain attacks, notably the recent …

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Domain takeover prompts concern about supply chain attacks

When the venerable “perl.com” domain which supports the Perl scripting language went offline last week, there was some initial speculation that the domain had been allowed to lapse and had been opportunistically re-registered by a third party. However, after some detective work a more sophisticated and troubling story is beginning to emerge. It has been …

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