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The supply chain compromise of code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen.

Discover major vulnerabilities from the past week from Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft, and more along with remediation recommendations.

A contributor to an open-source project used by most Linux distributions was responsible for the insertion of a backdoor, security researchers said.

An alert about a critical Linux vulnerability, a warning about password-spray attacks on Cisco VPNs, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Monday, April 1st, 2024. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Linux administrators and developers must take fast action after the discovery of a backdoor

Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL developer at Microsoft, was doing some routine micro-benchmarking when he noticed a small 600ms delay with ssh processes, noticing that these were using...

In a recent security announcement, Red Hat’s Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the “xz” compression tools and libraries. The affected versions, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, contain malicious code that could potentially allow unauthorized access to systems. Fedora Linux 40 users and those using Fedora Rawhide, the development distribution for future Fedora builds, are at risk.

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Red Hat today issued an 'urgent security alert' for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ

CISA and Red Hat warned Friday about a supply chain compromise of XZ Utils software potentially affecting many Linux distributions.

Thanks to the packaging efforts of the members of the KDE SIG (especially Alessandro Astone, Justin Zobel and Steve Cossette), we now have enough updated packages in Fedora to create Fedora Kinoite nightly images with KDE Plasma 6.