The Critical Importance of Supporting Open Source Projects: Lessons from the xz Backdoor Incident
On March 29, 2024, software developer Andres Freund discovered a malicious backdoor in the Linux utility xz within the liblzma library, affecting versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. Released by an account under the name “Jia Tan” in February 2024, this backdoor has raised alarms across the tech community. Although the backdoored version had not yet reached […]
The Importance of Keeping Systems Updated: Insights from the RegreSSHion Vulnerability
On July 1st, 2024, the cybersecurity world was alerted to a significant vulnerability in the OpenSSH software known as RegreSSHion. Discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, this family of security bugs allows an attacker to remotely execute code and potentially gain root access on machines running the OpenSSH server. Although not easily exploitable, the […]