On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all ...
XZ is a compression tool used in many Linux distributions, and this time the attack specifically targeted the OpenSSH server process 'sshd.' In distributions such as 'Ubuntu,' 'Debian,' and ...
Chances are, if you are the owner or administrator of a Linux machine, you access it remotely from time to time, if not constantly. Be it a workstation at home, a co-located server or a hobby machine, ...
OpenSSH is a standard part of the system administrator's toolbox. Although sshd, the OpenSSH daemon, is versatile, sometimes, you need more than one to meet your security goals. Why would you want to ...