Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics ...

Outdated defaults: Several Linux commands still operate with defaults designed for much older hardware and workflows, limiting efficiency for current users. Safer operations: Adjustments to rm, cp, ...

Make your most-used commands work the way you want them to.

Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and ...

A new Linux zero-day exploit, named Dirty Frag, allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux ...

I'm a Linux geek and have been using Ubuntu since its original release in 2004. These are the essential settings, apps, and ...

Exposure therapy to the bash shell brought me to the tipping point, and I jumped ship to the Macintosh side of the house. It ...

OX Security confirmed arbitrary command execution on six live platforms and estimates 200,000 MCP servers are exposed. Here's ...

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local ...

Six teams exploited Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and Vertex AI in nine months. Every attack hit runtime credentials that IAM ...

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Experts say until the distros release patches, CSOs have to beware of unauthorized privilege escalation; Kubernetes container ...