In his latest entry, Dana asks whether the Linux process is insecure, because it's not possible to warn the "vendor" before warning the general public about security flaws in Linux. He also notes ...

Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities ...

Rootkit component hides the crypto-mining process that causes high CPU usage from local, built-in Linux process monitoring utilities.

Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities ...

'Bootkitty' Malware Can Infect a Linux Machine's Boot Process This appears to be the first UEFI bootkit that goes beyond Windows and targets Linux machines, according to ESET security researchers.

The Linux boot process is a sequence of events that initializes a Linux system from a powered-off state to a fully operational state. The knowledge of Linux boot process is essential when it comes to ...

When you disown a Linux process in bash, you keep it from being terminated when you log out and allow it to finish on its own. This post shows how to use the disown command.

Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for untrusted users to execute code capable of carrying out a host of malicious actions, including installing backdoors ...

The Linux scheduler is invoked when the process being executed is blocked or voluntarily gives up the CPU, when the processor receives an interrupt or at the end of a 10-millisecond timeslice. The ...

The new Arch Linux installer is ready to help simplify the installation of this otherwise-challenging process. What you must do is go through each section of the menu and set any necessary options.