this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
249 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

59587 readers
2729 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
249
Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I mean programming language package managers are just begging to be used as an attack vector. This is why package management should be an OS responsibility across the board and only trusted package sources and publishers should ever be allowed.

[โ€“] Reptorian 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's also the alternatives of making your own library. I'm happy to use minimal amount of 3rd parties and just make my own instead.

load more comments (4 replies)