When your home has been broken into, you may not initially comprehend all that has been taken, or the damage that has been done. This is the state of apprehension the Linux community now feels with the recently-unearthed xz backdoor security vulnerability. “This upstream supply chain security attack is the kind of nightmare scenario that has gotten people describing it called hysterical for years,” Kubernetes Security Chairperson Ian Coldwater had written on X. “It’s real.” A Microsoft engineer ...