A financially motivated Russian threat actor tracked as UAT-11795 is using trojanized software to steal credentials and ...

A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...

Tracked as CVE-2026-31431 with a CVSS score of 7.8, Copy Fail was uncovered and named by researchers at Xint.io and Theori. The flaw allows an unprivileged local user to write four controlled bytes ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

Linux has long been known as the operating system of developers and power users, but today it’s far more accessible than ever before. Thanks to user-friendly distributions that prioritize simplicity, ...

Linux places no special demands on hardware, so there are generally no limitations when choosing a Linux system. Even more feature-rich desktop distributions like Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop, ...

A new malware called FinalDraft has been using Outlook email drafts for command-and-control communication in attacks against a ministry in a South American country. The attacks were discovered by ...

A huge chunk of Linux users are primarily software developers, enthusiasts, and people just getting started with Linux. A common piece of software these users need is a text editor to view, write, or ...

In my recent exploration of Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3, I was impressed by its efficient RAM usage — just 115MB upon booting. This sparked my curiosity about the RAM consumption of various Linux ...