Remember the notorious Stuxnet worm? It was a highly-sophisticated piece of malware – developed by the United States and Israeli intelligence –...
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The libpng image library that’s part of the Slackware Linux distribution has been updated with a fix for a vulnerability dating back to June 1995. While the...
Linux-based systems have been found at risk due to a vulnerability in the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS), hard disk encryption standard that allows attackers...
A hacker posted a tampered Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition on the official website on February 21, bundling a backdoor into the ISO that would have allowed...
A vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc), that’s part of most Linux distributions, has been patched following joint research by Google and Red Hat...
Today is Linus Torvalds’ 46th birthday! He is the inventor and lead developer of Linux kernel, the core of the operating system we all know and use today...
I must admit I raised an eyebrow. I’m not clear why any regular member of the public would really need a sniper rifle, let alone one which has a computer...
What is Bitdefender’s Pick? The enlightened minds of mathematicians, cryptographers, engineers, physicists, inventors and others have shaped the computer...
A security vulnerability on the GNU Bourne Again Shell reported Wednesday is claiming victims in the wild. The flaw – known to the tech world as CVE-2014...
A bug discovered in Bash Shell, a command-line interface used by Linux and Unix, could leave web servers, systems and embedded devices such as routers...