How one box was converted into a Bitcoin-mining, DoS-spewing, bug-exploiting bot. Dan - how do you keep your cellphone, PC and identity safe? Reading some of the things Krebs has gone through makes me ...

Proof-of-concept exploits have already surfaced online for a high-severity flaw in GNU C Library's dynamic loader, allowing local attackers to gain root privileges on major Linux distributions. Dubbed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Google will pay between $20,000 and $91,337 to researchers who create exploits of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, the Kubernetes container management system, and Google Cloud's Kubernetes Engine.

Several botnets are now using exploits targeting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability to infect Linux servers running unpatched Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center installs.

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...

During Pwn2Own hacking contest, participants were asked to compromise Microsoft Windows 11, Mozilla Firefox, VMware Workstation, NVIDIA Container Toolkit among other well-known systems. Security ...

Security researchers from the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) have uncovered a new buffer overflow vulnerability within the GNU C Library's dynamic loader, shedding light on this flaw's potential ...

Just give a Linux box to someone that does not know anything about computers, they install their web server on it and 5 months later you have a compromised box. Of course, if its not patched and basic ...