mFat to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoUnveiling the xz Utils Backdoor which deliberately opens our SSH connections for RCAswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down10
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minus-square@BOFH666@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink15•1 year agoThanks for the pointer. This is really huge, but people don’t quite understand that yet. If this wasn’t caught, every system -running public sshd- could be hacked or abused/misused. And I completely agree with the last words, corporate should pay foss projects!
minus-square@SMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•1 year agoEven paid it might be hard to find maintainers with knowledge of the code
Thanks for the pointer.
This is really huge, but people don’t quite understand that yet.
If this wasn’t caught, every system -running public sshd- could be hacked or abused/misused.
And I completely agree with the last words, corporate should pay foss projects!
Even paid it might be hard to find maintainers with knowledge of the code
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