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A Linux service may need broad system-call access while it starts, then only a smaller set while it handles requests. A single policy loaded before startup oft…
Linux kernel vulnerability news dominated the security updates published from August 20 through August 27. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle Linux, Rocky …
A Linux security hook should be able to check a task without invalidating the identity data that surrounding kernel code is still using. AppArmor broke that ex…
Linus Torvalds merged a Linux NFS client update on Aug 26, 2026, that includes a fix for rpc_pipefs files left attached to an RPC client after the client objec…
The Linux IPMI maintainer accepted a patch on Aug 26, 2026 that restores an RCU grace period before command-receiver objects are freed. The one-line change add…
A Linux system can be hardened, monitored, and carefully administered while still receiving untrusted code through a package, dependency, container image, buil…
A Linux dm-integrity patch posted on Aug 24, 2026 targets a writeback race that can leave stored data with the wrong integrity tag after a crash. Chen Cheng pr…
Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the local Ollama insta…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers (DDRs) to deliver two previously unreported r…
Vulnerability management has been a staple of security programs since the dawn of the cybersecurity discipline. The symbiotic relationship between vulnerabilit…
Cybersecurity researchers have found that several websites are still actively distributing a malware family known as Weedhack to gamers by masquerading as Mine…
A Linux BPF patch posted on August 21, 2026, expands validation for program replacement across cgroup and Linux Security Module hooks. Version 3 addresses case…
Code merged for the Linux 7.3 development cycle changes the measured boot evidence produced by the Integrity Measurement Architecture, or IMA. The kernel now r…
Big security risks come in small packages. While enterprise security teams focus on policing the proliferation of employees using ChatGPT and Claude for quick …
eBPF security is often summarized in one sentence: Linux loads an eBPF program only after the kernel verifier accepts it under the safety checks the verifier p…
A flaw in Kata Containers weakened container security in some Confidential Containers deployments. It allowed a malicious host operator to make the protected g…
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that's specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun.…
The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that …
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Linux security monitoring is useful only when it helps a team explain what happened. Collecting more events does not automatically provide better visibility, e…
During a live academic-network deployment, the Linux traffic-sampling system cut the stream sent to the sensor by 78 to 84 percent. In a separate test, it pres…
Linux kernel fuzzing service syzbot has reported an out-of-bounds array access in print_bpf_insn(), a routine used to turn BPF instructions into readable verif…
This week’s Linux security updates affect cloud hosts, public servers, and services used across entire networks. Ubuntu, Debian, and Rocky Linux released impor…