Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by Sasha Levin, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and ...

A maintainer wants a first-aid kit for the Linux kernel and a proposal is currently being reviewed.

Linux is getting a security wake-up call - why it was inevitable and I'm not worried ...

Copy Fail, a logic bug in the Linux kernel, allows users to write 4-byte code into other files’ page cache and achieve root ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...

An Intel engineer who contributes to the Linux kernel has released a set of patches that conceal some of the f-bombs that Linux kernel developers have added to kernel code comments over the years. The ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...