The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

Granted, Linux makes it easier – OpenOffice and Dia, for two examples, are pre-bundled with most Linux distros. Even if they’re not, Linux has a dead simple package management system which lets you ...

The industry appears to have been spared from potentially massive impacts of the open-source attack, after the insertion of a backdoor by a project maintainer was quickly caught by a Microsoft ...

Is Linux Mint a “crude hack” of existing Debian-based distributions? The news about the Linux Mint site getting hacked has caused many Linux users to question the quality of the distribution. One user ...