Security News

UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson's BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
2019-10-11 10:33

A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX,...

Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets to apps – modern Linux, Windows, BSDs immune
2018-06-13 21:00

Malware on Cores, Xeons may lift computations, mitigations in place or coming Updated A security flaw within Intel Core and Xeon processors can be potentially exploited to swipe sensitive data...

A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered (The Hackers News)
2017-06-20 00:57

Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems — including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris — which can be exploited...

Stack Clash Vulnerability in Linux, BSD Systems Enables Root Access (Threatpost)
2017-06-19 17:05

Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access.

Buffer Overflow in BSD libc Library Patched (Threatpost)
2016-12-07 19:55

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Unnoticed for years, malware turned Linux and BSD servers into spamming machines (Help Net Security)
2015-05-01 09:30

For over 5 years, and perhaps even longer, servers around the world running Linux and BSD operating systems have been targeted by an individual or group that compromised them via a backdoor Trojan, th...