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The Latest Security Vulnerabilities & Updates Impacting Your Linux Systems
Linux admins - When you're faced with a software vulnerability, you can patch it and move forward with peace of mind, but what happens when your x86 processor is susceptible to a cri
Fellow Linux admins- You may not be familiar with GRUB2, but this bootloader that controls the boot process for many distros could permanently threaten the security of your critical systems
Fellow Linux admins- If you're running Ubuntu versions 23.10 and 24.04, three new securit
Fellow Linux admins- The Linux kernel is responsible for the basic functions of the computer, so anything that can be done to ensure it's as secure as possible is always a good idea. The re
Fellow Linux admins- Malicious threat actors are currently exploiting a remote code execution via deserialization in Apache Tomcat servers worldwide and may be putting
Fellow Linux admins- Check your Chrome version - multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the JavaScript engine and multiple high-severity issues, like
Fellow Linux admins- Multiple significant vulnerabilities were discovered in X.Org and Xwayland that could lead to system c
Fellow Linux admins- Environments using PostgreSQL for big data analysis, scientific research, and countless business intelligence applications are at a heightened state of alert after it w
Fellow Linux admins- The Nvidia Container Toolkit is a set of open-source software libraries and tools designed to enable containerized applications to leverage NVIDIA GPUs for accelerated
Fellow Linux admins- Firefox 135 has implemented critical security updates designed to protect users against some pretty significant privacy leaks. We also learned this version addresses a
Fellow Linux admins- Linux admins using Chrome have reason to be concerned today. Chrome's DevTools is a set of essential web authoring and debugging tools that make it easy for Linux admin
Fellow Linux admins- Significant security improvements are coming to those of us using AMD graphics controllers. AMDs RDNA 4 GPUs represent the next generation of graphics architecture, and
Fellow Linux admins- rsync is an essential part of every Linux admin's toolkit. I've been using it since it was created by the same guy who created Samba
Fellow Linux admins- If you're using Firefox for its enhanced security over Chrome, or are using the Tor browser for privacy, then you'll want to continue
Fellow Linux admins- Another significant vulnerability was discovered in Chrome this week - this one is no joke. It was enough to earn the bug hunter $55,000 f
Fellow Linux admins- The time has come. USB tethering will soon stop working for us. RNDIS (Remote Network Driver Interface Specification) was developed by Microsoft for networking over USB
Fellow Linux admins- Kernel vulnerabilities can often lead to serious system compromise, so it's obviously crucial to update as soon as the fixes are made available. Linux 6.13-rc4 includes
Fellow Linux admins- Spectre vulnerabilities are nothing new, but apparently, for those of us with Snapdragon processors in our devices, Qualcomm didn't learn from years of past experience
Fellow Linux admins- A particularly severe Python vulnerability was discovered this week that impacts Linux admins operating high-volume web apps. Given the prominent role of Python in hand
Fellow Linux admins- The latest release of Chrome warns us to "don't Blink" away from more than a dozen serious flaws in Chrome's browser engine, but perhaps even more perplexing is the "ty
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