Security News

A vulnerability affecting Snapd – a package installed by default in Ubuntu and used by other Linux distributions such as Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Fedora and Solus – may allow a local attacker...

Crooks could take over your network thanks to a critical bug in a popular Linux containerisation toolkit... here's what you need to know.

A vulnerability recently addressed in runc could allow malicious containers to gain root-level code execution on the host. read more

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the core runC container code that affects several open-source container management systems and could potentially allow attackers to escape...

Make your networks more secure by using an SSH to proxy through a jump host from one machine to another.

A recently observed coin miner targeting Linux machines can remove a broad range of other malware families from infected systems, according to researchers from Trend Micro. read more

A new backdoor is targeting Linux servers in East Asia and Latin America, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted machines, Check Point security researchers say. read more

Armed with an impressive bag of exploits and other tricks for propagation, researchers believe the new trojan could be the catalyst for an upcoming, major cyber-offensive.

A pair of bugs in a very widely used Linux system tool called systemd have just been "weaponised" - check you're patched!

Jack Wallen shows you how you can use SSH to proxy through a jump host from one machine to another.