Tag: cybersecurity

  • FSF faces DDoS Attacks

    FSF faces DDoS Attacks

    The Free Software Foundation’s services face “ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,” senior systems administrator Ian Kelling wrote Wednesday. The FSF SysOps team consists of two full-time tech team employees and a handful of dedicated volunteers. A large part of our work is running the software and physical servers that host websites…

  • More News on sudo Holes

    More News on sudo Holes

    Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below –…

  • Kali Linux For Hacking Cars

    Kali Linux For Hacking Cars

    The new version of Kali Linux includes new tools and functions for analyzing the safety of cars. In addition to the updated Gnome and KDE Plasma desktop environments, the latest version of Kali Linux 2025.5 also includes new functions and tools. With Kali Linux, security researchers and pentesters check operating systems and software for security.…

  • Finding a Linux Vulnerability with ChatGPT

    Finding a Linux Vulnerability with ChatGPT

    How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation by Sean Heelan In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no…

  • Hackers bypass Linux Security with Curing

    Hackers bypass Linux Security with Curing

    Hackers can now bypass Linux security thanks to terrifying new “Curing” rootkit. Most Linux users assume their security tools will catch bad actors before damage is done — but sadly, new research suggests that confidence may be misplaced. You see, ARMO, the company behind Kubescape, has uncovered what could be one of the biggest blind…

  • Kernel Attacks Aim At Older Sec Leaks

    Kernel Attacks Aim At Older Sec Leaks

    Linux kernel: Attackers attack older security leaks.The US IT security authority CISA warns of attacks on older security leaks in the Linux kernel. Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel are being targeted by attackers and are being actively abused. The US IT security authority CISA is currently warning of this. Anyone still using an older kernel…