If you’re managing or using Linux systems, it’s crucial to understand the recent security threat that has emerged. The XZ Utils, an essential tool for lossless data compression on Linux, was ...

After a Microsoft software engineer noticed a backdoor in XZ Utils, an open-source set of data-compression tools widely used across Linux, the world was only a couple of weeks away from a major supply ...

An enormous cyber-attack that would have had a catastrophic impact on millions of computer systems across the planet was thwarted over the weekend by a lone researcher, who spotted a backdoor in the ...

The beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 won’t be released on time, the developers have confirmed, following concerns about a major security threat. Instead of launching on April 4, the latest Ubuntu version, ...

Red Hat is warning that a vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utility included in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, is a backdoor. Users should either downgrade the utility ...

Over the past few days, the security world has been abuzz with the discovery of a backdoor snuck into a compression utility called xz-utils. While this backdoor was effectively a near miss, getting ...

On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in XZ Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all ...