The Linux server operating system, used globally to power the internet, along with cloud storage, back-end business operations, embedded systems, and high-performance supercomputers, has a tarnished ...

Patch now: A newly discovered critical Linux vulnerability probably affects your systems Your email has been sent Dubbed PwnKit, it's been sitting in a user policy module used in Linux distros for ...

Linux users should immediately patch a serious vulnerability to the sudo command that, if exploited, can allow unprivileged users gain root privileges on the host machine. Called Baron Samedit, the ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

Linux is generally considered the Fort Knox of operating system (OS) standards, but it is not completely immune to security exploits. And it's not just kids breaking and bypassing screensave locks, ...

Computer security only happens when software is kept up to date. That should be a basic tenet for business users and IT departments. Apparently, it isn’t. At least for some Linux users who ignore ...

Ok. Just wondering what others are doing. In our organization we have a very mature monthly patching process for our Windows desktops and servers. The Linux/Unix side is frankly a mess. Since its ...

A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. On Monday, Rob Landley, a computer programmer, ...

Samsung's 860 and 870 SATA SSDs have been causing issues for a while on Linux and it has been determined that NCQ and queued Trim commands are to blame. The problem is especially bad on older AMD PCs.

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Squid, an open source proxy server. The flaw is a memory leak in fakeauth_auth NTLM that could ultimately cause the system to run out of memory. For more, ...

The University of Minnesota has suspended a research project after complaints that two student researchers submitted intentionally vulnerable code to the maintainers of the Linux kernel as a way to ...

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...