In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan". [b][4] The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific Ed448 private key remote code execution through OpenSSH on the affected Linux system.

Jia TAN is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She was a Clare Hall Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2024), a Global Fellow at the University of St. Andrews (2023), and a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2023).

Jia TAN is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (New York University Press, 2023).

Dec 1, 2021 · 这几天让安全研究社区炸开了锅的XZ后门投毒案的主角Tan Jia（Tan Jia Tan Jia，谈婚论嫁？ 还是见钱眼开？ 我们权且在后面称ta为“谈价”吧）真实身份究竟是谁，在这个时间窗口的热度，堪比另一个IT界神秘人物——中本聪。 不过正如大家现在不会认为中本聪一定就是个日本人一样，如果你看到这个名字就认为背后一定是个华人，亦或像下面这样直接引用“名人名言”来进行否定，恐怕都不是什么很好的习惯。 毕竟，真相一般都隐藏在层层的表象之下，只有 …

Apr 3, 2024 · Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor? The long-term plan to gain access, and the backdoor’s careful design have experts agreeing that “Jia Tan” was probably not a...

Apr 3, 2024 · In the wake of the backdoor's discovery, a mystery percolating through the tech world remains: Who is Jia Tan, and who did he, or she—or very likely they —truly work for?

Jia TAN is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She was a Clare Hall Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2024), a Global Fellow at the University of St. Andrews (2023), and a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2023).

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Tan Jianci (Chinese: 檀健次; pinyin: Tán Jiàncì; born October 5, 1990), also known by his stage name JC-T, is a Chinese actor, singer, and dancer.