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The Risks of Dependency Confusion Breaches and Safeguarding Your Projects

Dependencies are a great way to reduce the overall development time of a project by using someone else’s publicly hosted code that does the task quickly and efficiently rather than reinventing the wheel. An added advantage is popular packages are actively maintained. This means new features and bug fixes are continuously undertaken and released, so a chunk of your software is up-to-date and robust by just updating the dependencies. Isn’t that amazing?