Another day, another potential Linux security problem. This time around, it's a critical vulnerability in shim -- the key link between Linux and your computer's firmware during boot. Left unrepaired, ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven new Linux-related vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that they’re being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are ...

As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka "Looney Tunables," isn't horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical. On the other ...

A newly disclosed vulnerability in a Linux program can be exploited for local privilege escalation — and ultimately to acquire root privileges, researchers at cybersecurity vendor Qualys said today.

Researchers found a total of 37 security vulnerabilities impacting four open-source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) implementations and present for the last 20 years, since 1999. The flaws were found ...

Detecting vulnerabilities and managing the associated patching is challenging even in a small-scale Linux environment. Scale things up and the challenge becomes almost unsurmountable. There are ...

Seal Security, a leader in open source vulnerability remediation, today announced the launch of Seal OS, the first holistic solution designed to automatically fix vulnerabilities in both Linux ...

As the risks of cyberattacks that are related to security vulnerabilities continuously grow and can cause huge business damage, we see DevSecOps shifting more and more toward engineering. In this ...

Containerization technology makes software development and cloud deployment easier, but the images that are the foundation of the ecosystem commonly have unnecessary components and hundreds of ...