Dirty Frag, a critical Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch and giving hackers root, has gone public after an ...

PamDOORa Linux backdoor abuses PAM modules for SSH persistence and credential theft, increasing Linux server compromise risks ...

A new Linux zero-day exploit, named Dirty Frag, allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux ...

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Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a frightening new Linux rootkit, dubbed Quasar Linux (QLNX,) and developers should be especially concerned. Per the report (which we spotted through Bleeping ...

Be honest with me. How many of your passwords are still some version of your pet’s name followed by a number? Studies have shown that roughly 80% of data breaches involve weak or reused passwords.

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

CVE-2026-31431, also known as Copy Fail, is a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that's been hiding out since 2017 and is ...

The ubiquity of ransomware continues, this time with The Guardian announcing they were partially shut down from an attack. Staff are working from home as the incident is being investigated and data is ...

Meta’s smart glasses promise privacy “designed for you” – but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in ...

Your Audio or Sound may not work if its settings are misconfigured. Usually, we don’t manually change the audio settings and mess it up, a third-party app that we ...

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