If you, like me, use Ubuntu desktop, or one of its relatives such as Linux Mint, you have a bug to patch. Donncha O'Cearbhaill, an Irish security researcher, found a remote execution bug in Ubuntu.

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

Developers have patched a vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, that could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even if that root access was specifically disallowed. The ...

The Linux security team today patched a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel discovered by startup Perception Point. A patch for a critical Linux kernel flaw, present in the ...

Linux has security problems like any other operating system. Most of them aren’t that big a deal though. Many of the more serious ones require local user access to cause any real trouble, and except ...