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Attackers invite targets to collaborate on a project, convincing them to download and run a repository with malicious npm dependencies. (github.blog)
submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does RHEL have to do about NPM package dependencies in software projects? A server or a developer’s desktop machine using RHEL would still be pulling the same packages from NPM as another other distro…unless I’m missing something?

[–] bassomitron 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, I'm a dumb dumb and misread the whole thing as RPM, whoops!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I thought maybe RHEL had like their own NPM repo or something (I think NixOS has python packages, so that kind of thing isn’t unheard of), but then that didn’t really make sense so I wanted to make sure I was understanding.