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Emails masquerading as community members have promoted false employment opportunities, payroll updates for faculty and enrollment for insurance benefits. ....
Our community does not appreciate being experimented on says Kroah-Hartman Share Copy Updated Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized they could sneak vulnerabilities into open-source software – but when they tried subverting the Linux kernel, it backfired spectacularly. And now their entire school – or at least anyone using a umn.edu email address – has been banned from offering future Linux kernel contributions. Qiushi Wu, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at the American college, and Kangjie Lu, assistant professor at the school, penned a paper titled, On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits [PDF], which is slated to be presented at the Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy next month. ....
University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly theregister.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theregister.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.