These bugs may be exploited over-the-air via malicious packets on untrusted wireless networks, making them a significant threat Linux has received patches for five Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that were ...

MacFixIt reader David reports that he discovered a conflict between the Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter and a 1.2 GHz processor upgrade from GigaDesigns that was causing kernel panics. Simply removing the ...

Sophos researcher Nick Gregory has uncovered a dangerous security bug in Linux's netfilter application which could enable a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable machines and carry out a ...

For CPU-intensive tasks like rendering, encoding, and scientific computing, Ubuntu demonstrated up to 15% better performance ...

Yesterday, we asked for advice, short of erasing a disk, for solving a data corruption problem that occurred after a kernel panic was triggered by launching iTunes. We received numerous ...

Linux users have reported seeing weird white flashes and rapid blinking on their Intel laptop displays after upgrading to Linux kernel version 5.19.12, leading to warnings that the bug may damage ...

Google says it bumped up rewards for reports of Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or kCTF vulnerabilities by adding bigger bonuses for zero-day bugs and exploits using ...

After what happened with CrowdStrike, Microsoft wants to ensure that the incident doesn't repeat itself by making some important changes to its security.

It was shocking to learn yesterday that last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are no doubt continuing on ...