Security News

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root.

A vulnerability affecting the manner in which Sudo parsed tty information could have resulted in the user gaining root privileges and being able to overwrite any file on the filesystem on...

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works...


A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix...





Microsoft has been expressing its love for Linux and Open Source for almost three years now, and this love is embracing as time passes. Just last year, Microsoft made headlines by building support...