That account was root -- and with it, you had unlimited power over your operating system. Also: Do you need antivirus on Linux?

Linux, renowned for its robustness and security, is a powerful multi-user operating system that allows multiple people to interact with the same system resources without interfering with each other.

How-To How to Be Notified When Someone Logs In with Your AWS Root Account By Brien Posey 03/29/2024 Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead ...

Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities can be used to gain persistent root access.

Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU ...

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely deployed Linux components that could allow unprivileged users to gain root access across popular distributions. The first is a local privilege ...