A high-severity Linux vulnerability, “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431), enables root privilege escalation across cloud ...

Microsoft has rolled out Threat and Vulnerability Management capabilities to Linux. The solution allows organizations to detect security issues on their devices and reduces the time to remediate them.

Another day, another potential Linux security problem. This time around, it's a critical vulnerability in shim -- the key link between Linux and your computer's firmware during boot. Left unrepaired, ...

As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka "Looney Tunables," isn't horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical. On the other ...

A local privilege escalation of (LPE) vulnerability in the software used to handle authorizations — and installed by default — on most major distributions of Linux is trivial to exploit, with one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With more than 200 million gamers using Nvidia graphics to ...

Another year, another record for vulnerability reports. For the ninth year in a row, the number of reported vulnerabilities set a new record, with 48,177 issues assigned a 2025 Common Vulnerabilities ...

A new set of remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) in Linux environments has been discovered. These flaws, rated with a critical CVSS score of ...