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Offensive Security on Monday announced the immediate availability of Kali Linux 2019.1, the latest version of the Debian-based operating system designed specifically for penetration testing and...

Wohooo! Great news for hackers and penetration testers. Offensive Security has just released Kali Linux 2019.1, the first 2019 version of its Swiss army knife for cybersecurity professionals. The...

Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a malicious program to obtain root privileges and total...

The issue affects default installations of Ubuntu Server and Desktop and is likely included in many Ubuntu-like Linux distributions.

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