Dirty Frag is a new Linux bug putting your system at risk - and there's no easy fix yet ...

Another bad Linux kernel bug has appeared. Fragnesia can give unauthorized users root powers. More open-source security bugs are likely coming. According to Linus's law, "Given enough eyeballs, all ...

Capture and analyze the system call and log activity of your cloud-based Linux containers using a new tool based on the familiar Wireshark. Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy ...

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. Because the backdoor was discovered ...

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

A code-reuse attack named "Segmentation Fault Oriented Programming (SFOP)" exploits weaknesses in signal handling and Intel ...

Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic. The BSOD—with ...