Malware targeting Linux users may not be as widespread as the strains targeting the Windows ecosystem, but Linux malware is becoming just as complex and multi-functional as time passes by. The latest ...

Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal for the past three years and a half have been using a blank (NULL) password for the root account, security researchers from ...

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. A vulnerability in ...

The following methods can be used for resetting the root password if the root password is unknown. If you use GRUB for booting, select the system to be booted, and add 1 to the end of the kernel boot ...

All in all, an attacker wanting to skirt all the repeated password prompts and just access the shell, needs to hold down the Enter key for approximately 70 seconds or more. Some Linux systems affected ...

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...