2024-05-06 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Social engineering takeovers of open source projects Total comment counts : 54 Summary The OpenJS Foundation and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) are warning open source maintainers about social engineering takeover attempts after intercepting a similar incident to the recent XZ Utils backdoor. The OpenJS Foundation received suspicious emails requesting them to update a JavaScript project and designate the sender as a new maintainer. The Foundation recognized a similar pattern in two other projects and reported the concerns to respective leaders and cybersecurity agencies....