Qualys Threat Research Unit uncovers five local privilege escalation flaws, enabling unprivileged users to gain root access. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has disclosed five critical vulnerabilities in the...
Canonical has recently issued a security advisory addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2024-9312, CVSS 7.6) in Authd, an authentication daemon used for managing identity and access on Ubuntu machines worldwide. The vulnerability,...
A high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2024-9313 ((CVSS 8.8)), has been discovered in Authd, an authentication daemon used for secure identity and access management in Ubuntu machines. This flaw could allow malicious actors...
In a recent security disclosure, security researcher McPhail has identified a critical vulnerability in Snap, a popular package manager for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1724,...
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced a significant expansion of its Long Term Support (LTS) offering, extending beyond traditional ‘deb’ packages to include a new distroless Docker image design-and-build...
The three-day Pwn2Own 2022 hackathon in Vancouver has come to an end this week. Pwn2Own is the world’s most famous hacker competition with the most lucrative prize money. It is...
Recently, Ubuntu member Nathan Haines announced on the website that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase wallpaper competition is now open. “For the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase...
Someone just installed the newly released Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system on the Nintendo Switch. A user in the GBAtemp gaming community released a photo of Canonical’s latest Ubuntu...
One of the biggest advantages of the open source technology project is that everyone in the community is free to suggest ideas that can become a reality if they are...
Pop! _OS, the recently released Linux distribution for the well-known Linux notebook maker System76, is based on the Ubuntu and GNOME desktop environments and aims to provide users with a...
Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode said: “Canonical plans to implement Facebook’s open source compression algorithm, zstd by default in future versions of the Ubuntu Linux operating system.” The algorithm...
LinuxQuestions.org has conducted a survey of Linux users before, including the Linux version of their favorite, or their favorite game on the Linux platform, and in February released the results of...
Due to a few microcode hardware issues, Canonical today formally announced the complete withdrawal of Intel microcode firmware updates released for all supported Ubuntu systems. Two weeks ago, Canonical updated the...
Canonical released a new Linux kernel security update for all supported Ubuntu operating systems, addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities discovered by various researchers. The newly patched Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected Ubuntu...
In this article, we will introduce some simple methods and techniques to help you clean up the Ubuntu/Linux Mint systems and get more free space. Remove the packages that are no...
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