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It’s not often a guy on a computer is the hero of the story. Andres Freund, a Microsoft developer, found a malicious backdoor in popular open-source software last week. Programmers scrambled to fix the problem but warned that if they hadn’t, it could have led to hundreds of millions of compromised devices and a catastrophic cybersecurity breach.
Freund told the New York Times that he first noticed an unusual error message while doing routine maintenance on the Linux operating system—a vital software used by banks, governments, and corporations around the globe. At first, he wrote it off, but a few weeks later, he noticed an application used to log into computers remotely was using a lot more power in the system than it was supposed to.
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