Recently, a new security vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel that could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on a system. This vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-32233 with a CVSS score of...
A recently discovered flaw, CVE-2023-0386, with a CVSS score of 7.8, has been identified in the Linux kernel’s OverlayFS subsystem. The vulnerability enables unauthorized access to the execution of setuid files with capabilities, and...
A new security vulnerability in the widely used systemd service has been discovered, which could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26604, is caused...
Recently, a vulnerability was discovered in the popular Linux utility sudo that could potentially result in the variable that stores the command being freed more than once. This is referred to as a double-free...
A high-severity vulnerability has been reported in Sudo that could be exploited by a low-privilege attacker to gain root access on an affected system. Sudo is one of the most important, powerful, and commonly...
Recently, Linux kernel maintainers issued a risk notice for the Linux Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability, the vulnerability number is CVE-2022-32250. This flaw is a use-after-free bug that was found in the Linux kernel’s net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c....
While Linux proves itself to be the best OS for modifying your desktop settings, the story becomes rather different when it comes to gaming. The best part of Linux is that it’s open-source. Also,...
Every day, businesses and political organizations understand more about the advantages of analyzing data. Increasingly, the more they understand, the more the public becomes concerned about privacy. Because the field of data analysis is...
For a system administrator, having to perform security vulnerability analysis and software updates on a daily basis can be a burden. To avoid downtime in a production environment, it is common for a system...
Lynis is an open-source security auditing tool. Used by system administrators, security professionals, and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux and UNIX-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it...
MultiScanner is a file analysis framework that assists the user in evaluating a set of files by automatically running a suite of tools for the user and aggregating the output. Tools can be custom...
edb is a cross-platform x86/x86-64 debugger. It was inspired by Ollydbg but aims to function on x86 and x86-64 as well as multiple OS’s. Linux is the only officially supported platform at the moment, but...
OpenWrt/LEDE is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers). LEDE is based on the OpenWrt project. Unlike many other distributions for routers, LEDE is built from the ground up to...
I believe many developers are interested in the difference in network performance between Windows Server and Linux. The Phoronix website recently tested some Netperf network performance metrics on Windows Server 2016 and Linux distributions. Let’s see...
Recently, Canonical announced that Skype’s snap installation package of the world’s leading VoIP client, Skype, has come online, meaning that users can easily install and keep up to date on well-known Linux distributions such...
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