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Zane Lackey

  • General Partner, a16z
New York
As seen in: a16z, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Dark Reading, SD Times, Security Boulevard, Total Retail, ITOps Times
GP @a16z helping build amazing cybersecurity and platform engineering companies. Previously Co-Founder of @SignalSciences and CISO @Etsy
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Et Tu, Agent? Did You Install the Backdoor?

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By Malika Aubakirova, Zane Lackey, Joel de la Garza
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America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts This week, someone hijacked one of the most popular packages on the internet and used it to install a backdoor on every machine that ran npm install. The package was Axios, which is the HTTP library that powers network requests in millions of applications. It gets downloaded over 100 million times a week. If you’ve built anything in JavaScript in the last decade, you’ve almost certainly used it, or something you depend on has used it for you.
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Et Tu, Agent? Did You Install the Backdoor?

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By Joel de la Garza, Malika Aubakirova, Zane Lackey
| a16z
Et Tu, Agent? Did You Install the Backdoor? Table of Contents Share This week, someone hijacked one of the most popular packages on the internet and used it to install a backdoor on every machine that ran npm install. The package was Axios, which is the HTTP library that powers network requests in millions of applications. It gets downloaded over 100 million times a week.
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Breaking the Cybersecurity Kill Chain with AI

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By Malika Aubakirova, Zane Lackey
| a16z
Cybersecurity is a race where every move by attackers forces a counter. It has always been a cat-and-mouse game: attackers probe for weaknesses, defenders scramble to respond, and the cycle repeats. Over time, this arms race has produced an explosion of categories, frameworks, and labels: so many that the boundaries between them have grown blurry. The result is a landscape that often feels fragmented and overwhelming.
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