The Linux user experience is similar to that of Windows, but there are important conceptual or philosophical differences, too ...

CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems.

A multi-stage attack on Linux devices began with an exposed F5 BIG-IP edge appliance and pivoted to an internal Confluence ...

Uncover the limitations of learning Linux through Ubuntu, and why other distros offer a deeper, more comprehensive education in the operating system.

Packagist packages hid malicious package.json scripts, enabling Linux binary execution during installs and workflows.

Linux admins reeling from handling last month’s CopyFail and last week’s Dirty Frag kernel vulnerabilities have a new headache to deal with: Fragnesia. “This is a significant vulnerability,” Robert ...

WSL has come a long way.

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track ...

Telling the model to behave does not work. Probabilistic systems do not yield deterministic security outcomes, no matter how ...

HANDS ON Even after 60 releases, to borrow Carlsberg's slogan, OpenBSD is probably the most secure FOSS Unix-like OS in the world. OpenBSD 7.9 arrived just a couple of days after project lead Theo de ...