It’s a Perfect 10! Meet The XZ Backdoor

We have had four highly successful spin-outs in cyberecurity, and have a new spin-out happening in the next few months — True Deploy. What’s their focus? Well, its to make code software supply chains more trustworthy, as a single backdoor in a third-party library could bring down an entire software infrastructure. More information on True Deploy is here:

It’s a Perfect 10

I love the Spinal Tap movie, and my favourite scene is where we see an amp that goes up to 11:

This makes me smile, as when Heartbleed happened, Bruce Schneier was quoted as saying, “On a scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11”. It was an obvious nod to Spinal Tap, and his viewpoint was that Heartbleed affected not only servers that could be patched but the billions of devices that could not.

And, so, the majority of our digital world is not made up of Microsoft Windows, but of Linux. It powers most…