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Security researcher Andrew Fasano has discovered a multitude of vulnerabilities in McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise product for Linux – vulnerabilities that can be chained …

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia have discovered a critical flaw that can allow attackers – both local and remote – to obtain root shell on …

Linux/IRCTelnet (new Aidra), a new piece of Linux malware targeting IoT devices and turning them into DDoS-capable bots, has been spotted and analyzed by one of the …

Linux developer Phil Oester has spotted attackers exploiting a Linux kernel zero-day privilege escalation flaw that dates back to 2007, and has raised the alarm. The …

Released today, Ubuntu 16.10 comes with hybrid cloud operations, bare-metal cloud performance, the ability to lift-and-shift 80% of Linux VMs to machine containers, Kubernetes …

The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report released earlier this year by Dice and The Linux Foundation analyzed trends for open source careers and the motivations of professionals in …

Yesterday at LinuxCon in Berlin, The Linux Foundation announced that the OpenChain Project has established its first set of requirements and best practices for consistent free …

IoT-powered DDoS attacks are on the rise, and the situation is poised to become even worse now that the source code for the Mirai malware has been made public. Reporter Brian …

Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently …

Users posting on Bleeping Computer’s forums have alerted the world to a new threat targeting Linux server admins: the FairWare ransomware. Whether the ransomware …

The Linux Foundation analyzed the work done by over 13,500 developers over more than a decade, to provide insight into the Linux kernel development trends and methodologies …

A group of Dutch researchers have demonstrated a variant of the Rowhammer attack that can be used to successfully compromise Linux virtual machines on cloud servers. The Flip …