Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned users to update their Linux systems following the discovery of a 9-year-old root access vulnerability.

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 ...

Sudo is a powerful but imperfect Linux tool. These tips can help make using sudo easier and safer. Always use caution when monkeying with sudo. I started using Linux prior to the advent of sudo. Back ...

If you have users that need certain admin privileges on your Linux machines, here’s a walk-through of the process for granting full or specific rights. How many times have you created a new user on a ...

Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s networking stack gives any user with local shell access a reliable path to full root ...

In Linux systems, including Debian 12, the sudo group grants users the ability to execute administrative commands. This provides them with the privileges to install, update, and delete software, ...

The Kali Linux distribution is going to switch to a new security model by defaulting to a non-root user starting with the upcoming 2020.1 release. This change will come with the release of the 2020.1 ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...