// NIFO Security and Hacking News
Vulnerability researchers at Microsoft are documenting the discovery of a pair of Linux privilege escalation flaws that could be chained together to plant dangerous...
Organizations need to secure, monitor and manage Linux just like any other endpoint in the network Cybercriminals haven’t historically paid much attention to Linux...
Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed a set of two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux operating system that could potentially allow threat actors to carry...
How well do your Linux security practices stack up in today’s challenging operating environment? Are you following the correct processes to keep systems up-to-date...
Nothing is quite as vexing as a security hole in a security program. Xiaochen Zou, a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside,...
A previously undocumented backdoor has been observed targeting Linux systems with the goal of corralling the machines into a botnet and acting as a...
Network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker QNAP on Monday warned of a recently disclosed Linux vulnerability affecting its devices that could be abused to elevate...
A newly disclosed security flaw in the Linux kernel could be leveraged by a local adversary to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable systems to...
Linux distributions are in the process of issuing patches to address a newly disclosed security vulnerability in the kernel that could allow an attacker...
On Monday, a cybersecurity researcher released the details of a Linux vulnerability that allows an attacker to overwrite data in arbitrary read-only files. The...
