Researcher created typo versions of popular programming language packages to execute code on 17K hosts
Edit: It seems that the blog post and the thesis caused quite some interest. Please contact me under the following mail address, since my mail server on this VPS is constantly down :/ tschachn [| Tweets: @tdierks Tweets: Tim Dierks / @tdierks : Package managers are disasters from a security/threat standpoint. Here's a beautiful demonstration of the tire fire. http://incolumitas.com/...