A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

The Linux desktop community discussed at the Linux App Summit 2026 how to make Linux systems more secure, robust, and ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, including root-only secrets such as SSH keys. The bug affects multiple LTS ...

For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical security flaw. Nobody caught it. Not the open-source contributors who maintained ...

Abstract: Nowadays, many industrial synchronization systems rely on the Precise Time Protocol (PTP or IEEE1588) that provides sub-microsecond precision time transfer. However, there are some ...

Vadzo Imaging's VISPA ARC USB camera SDK extends verified support to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.x, enabling the Falcon-1335CRS, Falcon-900MGS, Falcon-2020MRS, and Falcon-821CRS USB camera to ...

Introduced in 2007, the CIFSwitch Linux kernel bug allows users to modify CIFS key description fields and gain root ...

Cybersecurity roundup: supply chain threats, AI agent risks, browser-cloning malware, mule networks, endpoint bypasses, and ...

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Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

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