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GitHub back in September already published their roadmap of mitigations to NPM supply chain attacks: https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-pla
by yourapostasy 11mo ago
GitHub back in September already published their roadmap of mitigations to NPM supply chain attacks:
https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-plan-for-a-more-secure-npm-supply-chain/ https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-plan-...
I'm guessing no one yet wants to spend the money it takes for centralized, trusted testing where the test harnesses employ sandboxing and default-deny installs, Deterministic Simulated Testing (DST), or other techniques. And the sheer scale of NPM package modifications per week makes human in the loop-based defense daunting, to the point that only a small "gold standard" subset of packages that has a more reasonable volume of changes might be the only palatable alternative.
What are the thoughts of those deep inside the intersection of NPM and cybersecurity?
- dboreham 11mo agoYou would need to hear the thoughts of those deep inside the intersection of money and money.