In recent times, the security aspect of information technology has received considerable attention, and large organizations have dedicated security teams to keep tabs on vulnerabilities in their ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...

SELinux, or Security-Enhanced Linux, represents a paradigm shift in Linux security by enforcing mandatory access controls (MAC) based on security policies. Unlike traditional discretionary access ...

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 ...

There are many aspects to security on Linux systems – from setting up accounts to ensuring that legitimate users have no more privilege than they need to do their jobs. This is look at some of the ...

A security oversight in Linux allows rootkits to bypass enterprise security solutions and run stealthily It was found in the io_uring Kernel interface Researchers built a PoC, now available on GitHub ...

Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The ...

Together with the Linux Foundation, Google announced today that they would fund two Linux kernel developers' efforts as full-time maintainers exclusively focused on improving Linux security. "While ...