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Byline: Jim Lynch Privacy is an issue on many people's minds these days, including those that run Linux on their computers. Linux has long had a strong reputation as a [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch Linux is one of the best operating systems around, but no OS is perfect. All operating systems end up having bugs of one kind or another, including [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch Linux Mint has been lambasted by some in the media for security problems over the last few years. But how accurate are such perceptions? Does Linux Mint [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid A local privilege esclation flaw has been fixed in the Linux kernel, but several upstream distributions have yet to release updates. Administrators should plan on mitigating [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid Linux administrators will have to change their holiday plans, because Exim is still releasing a security update on Christmas Day, and not earlier as had been [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid Broken authentication, improperly secured configuration files, and poor certificate management: Attackers could have exploited these issues to compromise any RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) instance on [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch Security is an ongoing issue for all operating systems, including Linux. While Linux has generally had a good reputation compared to Windows when it comes to security, [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid Updating software is important, but it's the third-party add-ons that get servers pwned. No component -- theme, plugin, or module -- is too small. Canonical, the [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Sysdig, which makes monitoring solutions for containers, has released an open source project that watches containers -- and the rest of a Linux system as well -- [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore system from making proper use of all cores for heavily multithreaded loads, according to a lecture and [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch The Linux Mint site was hacked recently, and the folks that did it pointed to ISOs that included a backdoor. Anybody who downloaded Linux Mint on February [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid No one ever looks at checksums, claims the attacker behind the Linux Mint breach. That needs to change. The attack against Linux Mint's website, where users [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch A writer at AnandTech did a full review of Google's Pixel C a while back, but now he's gotten a more up to date unit from the [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the GNU C library, glibc, that could put modern Linux servers at risk for remote code execution attacks. API [...]

Byline: Fahmida Y. Rashid The new zero-day vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel highlights the challenges of securing Linux devices that cannot be easily updated. Administrators have access to standard [...]

Byline: Jim Lynch Security is something that is always on the minds of users these days, and that includes those who use Linux. TechWeek Europe has a disturbing article about [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Containerization technology has been a game-changer, powering Docker and other transformative software solutions. It's also garnered its share of criticisms about performance, security, and resiliency. But one [...]

Byline: Paul Krill The Linux Foundation on Wednesday will release version 5.0 of its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) specification, which covers capabilities such as more reliable file systems and security. [...]