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Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments

The new feature enables enterprises and storage-hosting providers to transfer files over networks with far greater speed, throughput, and less time than before. SMB is a ubiquitously used protocol for ...
TechRadar

Best Linux compression tool: 8 utilities tested

In the '80s and early '90s, compression was king. As you struggled to connect to a BBS (bulletin board system) with the latest Amiga utilities on, you dreamed of when things would be faster and not ...
GIGAZINE

It was discovered that a malicious backdoor was installed in the built-in compression tool 'XZ Utils' of Linux distributions such as Red Hat and Debian.

On March 29, 2024 local time, developer Andres Freund reported the existence of a malicious backdoor in XZ Utils. According to him, it was confirmed that malicious code was present in versions 5.6.0 ...
GIGAZINE

Security company Kaspersky explains how the backdoor of the compression tool 'XZ Utils' used in Linux environments is embedded

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 ...