Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on what has been described as the first Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit designed for Linux systems. Dubbed Bootkitty by its creators who ...

Attackers can exploit two newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities to gain root privileges on systems running major Linux distributions. The first flaw (tracked as CVE ...

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies about attackers targeting a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's OverlayFS subsystem that allows them to gain root privileges.

OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO) has been officially green-lit for inclusion in the Linux kernel and will be part of Linux version 6.16.

Major Linux Distros Are Exposed To A Root-Level Security Threat, Update ASAP by Bruno Ferreira — Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 02:40 PM EDT Comments ...

The second vulnerability, CVE-2025-6019, resides in libblockdev and can be triggered via the udisks daemon, which is installed by default on nearly all Linux distributions. Once a user obtains ...

I've covered BlueStar Linux before, and, like many Linux distributions, there's a new release available. The best thing about the new release is that little has changed on the aesthetics front.

Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 6.15 last week. In addition to the usual new and adapted drivers and many small corrections, the new kernel is mainly dedicated to optimization and decluttering.

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