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The latest information in security news, research, hacker techniques and vulnerabilities.
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- KnowBe4 to Acquire Egress April 24, 2024
- Black Girls Do Engineer Signs Education Partnership Agreement With NSA April 24, 2024
- Attacker Social-Engineered Backdoor Code Into XZ Utils April 24, 2024Unlike the SolarWinds and CodeCov incidents, all that it took for an adversary to nearly pull off a massive supply chain attack was some slick social engineering and a string of pressure emails.Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Kali Linux
- xz-utils backdoor: how to get started April 1, 2024Following the recent disclosure of a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma, we are writing this “get started” kind of blog post. We will explain how to setup an environment with the backdoored version of liblzma, and then the first commands to run to validate that the backdoor is installed. All in all, it should just take […]
- All about the xz-utils backdoor March 29, 2024As of 5:00 pm ET on March 29, 2024 the following information is accurate. Should there be updates to this situation, they will be edited onto this blog post. The xz-utils package, starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise […]
- Kali Linux 2024.1 Release (Micro Mirror) February 28, 2024Hello 2024! Today we are unveiling Kali Linux 2024.1. As this is our the first release of the year, it does include new visual elements! Along with this we also have some exciting new mirrors to talk about, and of course some package changes - both new tools and upgrades to existing ones. If you […]
