Despite appearing rather complex at first glance, the Linux terminal is a nifty tool for most tasks, be it installing new ...

The root user could be deactivated (so it couldn't be as easily leveraged) Only users in the admin group (more on this in a bit) could run administrative tasks Sudo also enabled administrators to ...

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.

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

As mentioned previously, Linux continues to emulate a privileged root user. This is done by perverting the capabilities behavior of exec () and setuid (). Briefly, if your effective userid is 0 when ...

Kali Linux 2020.1 was released today by Kali Linux team at Offensive Security with a new Kali Single Installer image for all desktop environments and a previously announced move to a non-root ...

Root users are superusers and have administrative privileges File name conventions are case-sensitive (e.g. in the Linux/Unix operating system, SAMPLE and sample are considered two different files) ...

Sudo, the main command in Linux that allows users to run tasks, has been found to have a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to execute commands as a root user. The vulnerability, known ...

Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major ...