The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert Friday warning of a previously unnoticed backdoor in a widely used Linux tool that compresses and encrypts files shared between ...

Last week, the world narrowly escaped what could have been one of the largest and most crippling cyber attacks in history. And yet, there has been minimal media coverage of what (almost) happened. I’m ...

Syncplify Server! does not rely on the XZ library. It is entirely unaffected by the malicious versions of xz Utils. CONCORD, CA, USA, April 2, 2024 /EINPresswire.com ...

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 ...

The recent discovery of a backdoor in the XZ Utils data compression utility — present in nearly all major Linux distributions — is a stark reminder that organizations who consume open source ...

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, ...