A major Linux package scare just exposed how dangerous trust-based software ecosystems can get when abandoned packages fall into the wrong hands. This video breaks down the AUR malware wave, how ...

Generally, mainstream malware attacks tend to focus on consumer-oriented operating systems like Windows. It’s rare that Linux is specifically targeted which makes this discovery concerning. Linux ...

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Jon Erickson, No Starch Press, 2008) is an intense, thorough and extremely well written book that can take you from basic hacking concepts to building ...

A new Linux backdoor called 'WolfsBane' has been discovered, believed to be a port of Windows malware used by the Chinese 'Gelsemium' hacking group. ESET security researchers who analyzed WolfsBane ...

As attacks on the operating system grow more serious, the company is teasing a plan to bring “verifiable integrity” to Linux. If there’s one thing guaranteed to grab attention in the computer security ...