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Backdoors (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they messed up once. It's still miles better than just not having someone looking at the included stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You'd think this would be common sense...