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Secure tunneling tech hopes to move from module to resident The developer of WireGuard has laid the groundwork for pouring his open-source privacy tool directly into the Linux kernel in hope of...

Microsoft's love for Linux continues… Microsoft has released its command-line shell and scripting language PowerShell Core for Linux operating system as a Snap package, making it easier for Linux...

We think Gentoo Linux did a good job in a bad situation following its recent malware invasion, and we can all learn something from that.

A user-maintained Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) software repository was pulled earlier this week after it was found to contain malware. read more

Arch Linux user repository altered to host malware, Arch maintainers say they're "surprised it doesn't happen more often".

Yet another incident which showcases that you should not explicitly trust user-controlled software repositories. One of the most popular Linux distros Arch Linux has pulled as many as three...

Trust nobody: abandoned code was adopted by a miscreant Arch Linux has pulled a user-provided AUR (Arch User Repository) package, because it contained malware.…

The “security by minority” stance should come crashing down as cross-compiling makes multiplatform malware development easier.

Last week's megastory was the Gentoo breach that saw an entire online Linux code repository hacked - now we know how it happened...

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the...