Students are using a 'backdoor' to attend their dream schools

High-school grads find an alternative way into top-choice colleges, moving to town, enrolling in online classes and taking ...

More companies use ‘backdoor’ job references to counter AI

What your former co-workers think of you could land you a job or torpedo your chances.
AOL

We Will Make $360k Combined This Year. Can We Use a Backdoor Roth Strategy to Reduce Our Taxes?

A backdoor Roth can sometimes be a good idea. The government puts income limits on who can contribute to a Roth IRA portfolio. In 2025, these limits are set at $165,000 for single filers, and $246,000 ...
Bleeping Computer

Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Docker Hub is the ...
Dark Reading

APT41 Delivers 'Zero-Detection' Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials

The notorious Chinese threat group APT41 is using an undetectable backdoor malware to target Linux-based cloud workloads to steal credentials from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP ...
WeLiveSecurity

You will always remember this as the day you finally caught FamousSparrow

In July 2024, ESET Research noticed suspicious activity on the system of a trade group in the United States that operates in the financial sector. While helping the affected entity remediate the ...