The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

The industry appears to have been spared from potentially massive impacts of the open-source attack, after the insertion of a backdoor by a project maintainer was quickly caught by a Microsoft ...

The APT27 hacking group, aka "Iron Tiger," has prepared a new Linux version of its SysUpdate custom remote access malware, allowing the Chinese cyberespionage group to target more services used in the ...

Kali Linux 2025.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download with 13 new tools and an expanded car hacking toolkit. Designed for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers, ...

Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the ...

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...

The software framework has become essential to developing almost all complex software these days. The Django Web framework, for instance, bundles all the libraries, image files, and other components ...