Major cybersecurity disaster averted by sharp-eyed programmer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A significant cybersecurity threat was averted in the United States after a software developer detected a deliberate act of sabotage within a widely-used program. The program, sabotaged by one of its own developers, could have potentially opened a hidden gateway to millions of internet servers worldwide. This incident has triggered widespread concerns about the security of open-source software. Andres Freund, a German software developer working for Microsoft in San Francisco, made …