In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

We identified a severe bottleneck in the way hammer exports work and found the code in upstream Pulp. The tarfile Python module creates tar files using the gizp Python module. Data compression for the ...

Researchers are seeing a rise in attacks spreading the EvilExtractor data theft tool, used to steal users' sensitive data in Europe and the U.S. EvilExtractor is sold by a company named Kodex for ...

What is a gzip file? Among various file zipping formats gzip is also one such format of file zipping where larger files are compressed into smaller file formats mostly in MegaBytes (MB). All the gzip ...

Code dive You can remotely commandeer and control computers that use vulnerable Intel chipsets by sending them empty authentication strings. You read that right. When ...

The indexed_gzip project is a Python extension which aims to provide a drop-in replacement for the built-in Python gzip.GzipFile class, the IndexedGzipFile. indexed_gzip was written to allow fast ...