Servers and workstations that have been provisioned/installed from Alpine Linux Docker images are now at risk of being hijacked by attackers who can authenticate using the root user and no password.

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.

The Kali Linux distribution is going to switch to a new security model by defaulting to a non-root user starting with the upcoming 2020.1 release.

Cybersecurity researchers from Qualys have discovered two information disclosure vulnerabilities plaguing different Linux distros. The flaws, both of which are race condition bugs, allow threat ...

chwoot: Critical Linux vulnerability makes users root on most systems An example exploit is available online and works on many standard systems. Admins should quickly install the available updates.

There was a time when real system administrators just logged into Unix systems as root. But as we all know — with great power comes great responsibility. It’s too easy to do terrible th… ...

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo.