Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
arstechnica.com
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

  • oo1@kbin.social
    8·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, screw em. I use mine to produce lots of stuff.
    I try to avoid producing too much manure though.

    I think lots of IT people have an extremely limited experience of what it is to produce something.
    I mean if opening a ssh hole to the whole world to fuck with is an important part of what they consider “production” - well I’m not really into those types of websites.