The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

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 ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

Une faille critique dans un format de compression largement utilisé dans Linux et dans Unix peut permettre aux pirates d’accéder aux machines, ont signalé des experts en sécurité, le 8 juillet. Un ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bug, which affects the current version of zlib, 1.2.2, can be exploited to create a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which could crash any application using the library or let the attacker plant ...

There are two types of compression: lossless and lossy. Lossy compression achieves a greater reduction in file sizes by carefully discarding data that doesn't greatly affect the results. JPEG and MP3 ...

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 ...