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An alert developer appears to have prevented a backdoor — likely introduced into a compression utility by state-backed actors — from being distributed to production Linux systems. The malicious code appears to allow the bypassing of checks during SSH authentication.

Cybersecurity vendor Anomali has appointed Stree Naidu as its senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific and Japan.

The community Linux distribution openSUSE has released a beta of its stable version 15, known as Leap, bringing it on par with the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise version 15 Service Pack 3 as far as packages are concerned.

Community Linux distribution openSUSE Leap has reached the beta phase for builds of its development version 15 and testers have been invited to try it out.

The number of users of openSUSE, the community GNU/Linux distribution supported by the Germany SUSE Linux company, has grown, with an average of 400,000 DVD images being downloaded each month.

openSUSE, the community distribution launched by the German SUSE Linux company, will have a middle-of-the-road branch next month.