A 20-year old vulnerability in the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) compression algorithm was finally patched this week. A 20-year old vulnerability in the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) compression algorithm – ...

Every day humanity creates billions of terabytes of data, and storing or transmitting it efficiently depends on powerful compression algorithms. This video explains the core idea behind lossless ...

After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long as ...

SAP SE has fixed security vulnerabilities in a pair of compression algorithms used by a number of the company’s popular business management software programs. The two primary compression algorithms ...

What if the key to compressing any message was building the codebook as you go, making it unnecessary to send one at all? This is the elegant paradox at the heart of Lempel-Ziv, the algorithm quietly ...