A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

Vadzo Imaging's VISPA ARC USB camera SDK extends verified support to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.x, enabling the Falcon-1335CRS, Falcon-900MGS, Falcon-2020MRS, and Falcon-821CRS USB camera to ...

Another bad Linux kernel bug has appeared. Fragnesia can give unauthorized users root powers. More open-source security bugs are likely coming. According to Linus's law, "Given enough eyeballs, all ...

Previously, I looked at using the Linux video loopback system from the command line. The basic trick was simple enough: capture video from a real camera, process it with something like ffmpeg, and ...

With OpenVPN 2.7 and Data Channel Offloading, VPN throughput in IPFire increases to up to 10 GBit/s. The update also closes ...

The Linux desktop community discussed at the Linux App Summit 2026 how to make Linux systems more secure, robust, and ...

While many operating systems seem to try to prevent you from peeking under the hood, Unix and Linux positively encourage it. One great tool that we’ve looked at before is strace. Using this tool, you ...

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In our last post we used a Claude skill to systematically beat down VirusTotal detection rates on offensive security tools, ...

For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical security flaw. Nobody caught it. Not the open-source contributors who maintained ...

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