Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux camp When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting ...

The Linux security team today patched a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel discovered by startup Perception Point. A patch for a critical Linux kernel flaw, present in the ...

Linux is engineered with security in mind. In fact, the most fundamental security mechanisms are built right in to the kernel itself, which makes it extremely hard for malicious code to bypass.