Monthly Archives: March 2024

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

Aurich Lawson | Getty Image reader comments 84 On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsén. The so-called “Lenna image,” (Forsén added an extra “n” to her name in her… Read More »

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Enlarge / Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. Getty Images reader comments 93 Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. The compression utility, known as xz Utils, introduced… Read More »