reader comments 31 with 24 posters participating Share this story Researchers have unearthed a discovery that doesn’t occur all that often in the realm of malware: a mature, never-before-seen Linux backdoor that uses novel evasion techniques to conceal its presence on infected servers, in some cases even with a forensic investigation. On Thursday, researchers from… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 51 with 39 posters participating Share this story Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to come to light in the open source OS. As operating systems have… Read More »
reader comments 24 with 21 posters participating Share this story A researcher has successfully used the critical Dirty Pipe vulnerability in Linux to fully root two models of Android phones—a Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung S22—in a hack that demonstrates the power of exploiting the newly discovered OS flaw. The researcher chose those two handset… Read More »
reader comments 52 with 45 posters participating Share this story Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for untrusted users to execute code capable of carrying out a host of malicious actions including installing backdoors, creating unauthorized user accounts, and modifying scripts or binaries used by privileged services or apps. Dirty Pipe,… Read More »
Enlarge / It probably shouldn’t be considered “surprising” when a Linux certification entity reports that Linux certifications are highly desirable. reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Linux Foundation released its 2021 Open Source Jobs Report this month, which aims to inform both sides of the IT hiring… Read More »
Enlarge / Your hard drives and SSDs aren’t any better than the filesystem you format them with. Paragon’s ntfs3 driver combines decent performance with a fully featured implementation—a combination that neither Linux in-kernel ntfs or FUSE-mounted ntfs-3g can claim both halves of. reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story In March of… Read More »
reader comments 116 with 71 posters participating Share this story The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities—one in Windows and the other in Linux—that allow hackers with a toehold in a vulnerable system to bypass OS security restrictions and access sensitive resources. As operating systems and applications become harder to hack, successful… Read More »
reader comments 41 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Google and Intel are warning of a high-severity Bluetooth flaw in all but the most recent version of the Linux Kernel. While a Google researcher said the bug allows seamless code execution by attackers within Bluetooth range, Intel is characterizing the flaw… Read More »