An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?
- Written by: Sigi Goode, Professor of Information Systems, Australian National University
Zakharchuk / ShutterstockOutside the world of open-source software, it’s likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security experts uncovered a serious and deliberate flaw that could leave networked Linux computers susceptible to malicious...
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