Linux dodged a bullet. If the XZ exploit had gone undiscovered for only a few more weeks, millions of Linux systems would have been compromised with a backdoor. We were lucky. But can we stay lucky? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSF) and the OpenJS Foundation revealed that a similar hacking attempt had targeted several […]
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Linux firmware update utility fwupd is moving away from XZ Utils and will use zstd (Zstandard) for future releases for compressing metadata.
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Red Hat warns Fedora Linux users about a backdoor in the upstream XZ/liblzma packages leading to SSH server compromise.
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I compressed a directory having 37M size using both xz & zip. The zip file size was 31M, while the xz file was 16M after compression. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Let us see how to compress the whole directory using xz and tar on Linux, macOS/*BSD/…