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Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering 'Cooldown' Before Installing New Packages


Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby's package hosting site "exploit a narrow window," according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata. So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it's been public "for at least N days. Releases t...

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