ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ...

The flaws let attackers abuse masked paths, console bind-mounts, and redirected writes to escape containers and gain host ...

Vulnerabilities discovered recently in the Runc container runtime can be exploited to escape containers and gain root access to the host.

Fortunately, there are currently no reports of any of the three bugs being actively abused in the wild, and runC developers ...

Three newly disclosed vulnerabilities in the runC container runtime used in Docker and Kubernetes could be exploited to ...

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a new Broadcom bug to its Known Exploited ...

An old Linux kernel flaw, CVE-2024-1086, is now actively exploited by ransomware gangs to gain root access and escalate attacks.

The phased rollout of Microsoft's platform authenticator strategy began last week for Edge on Windows 10 and 11. Here's what it does for you.

The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...