Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

While Linux users do not consider Windows to be an adequate operating system for their needs, there is no doubt that many of them would like to use hardware like that in the Surface line to run Linux.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...