In the '80s and early '90s, compression was king. As you struggled to connect to a BBS (bulletin board system) with the latest Amiga utilities on, you dreamed of when things would be faster and not ...

On March 29, 2024 local time, developer Andres Freund reported the existence of a malicious backdoor in XZ Utils. According to him, it was confirmed that malicious code was present in versions 5.6.0 ...

XZ is a compression tool used in many Linux distributions, and this time the attack specifically targeted the OpenSSH server process 'sshd.' In distributions such as 'Ubuntu,' 'Debian,' and ...

A curious Microsoft engineer has turned up a backdoor in the nearly-ubiquitous open source XZ Utils package that’s set Linux maintainers into a patching frenzy. Andres Freund, who describes himself on ...

You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. Ubuntu users should check out ...