Vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades — and AI tools have opened a gateway to a glut of new long-hidden discoveries.

A top Microsoft executive said a shift toward memory safety and other preventative measures can limit the ability to exploit flawed software.

When finding vulnerabilities and generating targeted exploits is a 21-minute job that costs just $3.61, it’s time to scrap outdated best practices and ‘hand-to-hand combat with attackers,’ warns ...

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Linux desktop market share in North America has crossed 10% for the first time in StatCounter's July 2026 data, with Cloudflare Radar independently corroborating the elevated signal. A 'Unknown' OS ...

NetBSD 11 arrived later than announced, but now runs on RISC-V and offers ultra-fast MICROVM kernels for i386/amd64.

Jewelbug, a China-linked hack-for-hire group, breached 15 government ministries at once by inserting one script into a shared ...

Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at Black Hat that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses against Spectre v2. Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT's ...

CVE-2026-64531 lets local users exploit Open vSwitch kernel memory corruption to gain root, with a public PoC covering ...

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the ...

AMD P-State is the modern CPU frequency scaling driver for AMD Ryzen processors on Linux. Rather than relying on the older ...