Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Abstract: Signal handling has been an integral part of UNIX systems since the earliest implementation in the 1970s. Nowadays, we find signals in all common flavors of UNIX systems, including BSD, ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called ZiChatBot on ...

Tracked as CVE-2026-31431 with a CVSS score of 7.8, Copy Fail was uncovered and named by researchers at Xint.io and Theori. The flaw allows an unprivileged local user to write four controlled bytes ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has disclosed that a U.S. federal civilian agency was compromised by FIRESTARTER malware on a Cisco Firepower device, with the backdoor maintaining ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

PC users can remove Linux from the navigation pane of File Explorer without having to uninstall WSL. Since this is a registry operation, it is recommended that you back up the registry or create a ...

Linux places no special demands on hardware, so there are generally no limitations when choosing a Linux system. Even more feature-rich desktop distributions like Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop, ...