Security News


Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Dirty COW Linux kernel zero-day exploited in the wild is now patched Linux developer Phil Oester has spotted...

Linux developer Phil Oester has spotted attackers exploiting a Linux kernel zero-day privilege escalation flaw that dates back to 2007, and has raised the alarm. The vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195)...

A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers.





A Linux admin and open source developer has come up with a 48-character attack that crashes Linux servers, but experts argue the security implications of the bug.