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XZ Backdoor Supply Chain Vulnerability: What You Should Know
Get to know how you might be affected by the XZ Utils backdoor vulnerability, and what you can do to assess and mitigate the impact.
What you'll learn
This course discusses how a trusted Github collaborator implanted a backdoor into a popular Linux software tool used for compressing software packages such as release tarballs, kernel images and initramfs images, amongst other things. We’ll cover why it’s important and how you can risk-assess your exposure, as well as providing guidance on how to mitigate the risk.
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About the authors
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation.
More Courses by AaronMatt has a degree in Chemical engineering and a PhD in mathematical chemistry. He is also a GIAC certified incident handler and penetration tester and has regulated cyber security in the UK civil nuclear sector for many years.
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