When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The flaws, both of which are race condition bugs, allow threat actors to gain access to sensitive ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...

The power to grab root privileges is the ultimate evil in Unix and Linux systems. Kevin Backhouse, a member of the GitHub Security Lab, found the polkit security hole in the course of his duties. He ...

A significant security gap in Linux runtime security caused by the 'io_uring' interface allows rootkits to operate undetected on systems while bypassing advanced Enterprise security software. The flaw ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert Friday warning of a previously unnoticed backdoor in a widely used Linux tool that compresses and encrypts files shared between ...

One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to be so much better than that of the competing alternatives. That’s due in large part to the way Linux assigns permissions, but ...