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The #XZ #backdoor provide critical lessons about #opensource #security. 🛡️ Here's a brief rundown of our response at #openSUSE. We're also likely to have some sessions at this year's @opensuse Conference. https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/12/learn-from-the-xz-backdoor/


📰 XZ Utils Backdoor Attribution Analysis

#News #Linux #XZutils #backdoor #ssh #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #video #peertube #APT

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/ca2iuxmdqfBE98PwZYY6wh


#XZ #Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams


However, I believe that he is actually from somewhere in the UTC+02 (winter)/UTC+03 (DST) timezone, which includes Eastern Europe (EET), but also Israel (IST), and some others. Forging time zones would be easy — no need to do any math or delay any commits. He likely just changed his system time to Chinese time every time he committed.


source: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and

#security #software #time #news #hack #linux #timezone