The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On ...

A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator. On Monday, Rob Landley, a computer programmer, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux camp When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting ...

Ok. Just wondering what others are doing. In our organization we have a very mature monthly patching process for our Windows desktops and servers. The Linux/Unix side is frankly a mess. Since its ...

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root. Red Hat, Debian and other Linux distributions ...

A dangerous vulnerability in a pervasive tool for running Linux systems in a Windows environment leaves the door open for an attacker to access these systems without requiring any authentication. The ...

Altiris today updated its software to let customers patch Linux systems as well as manage virtual and physical resources side by side. Altiris’ Server Management Suite, which lets users patch Windows ...

Apparently, Microsoft isn't the only vendor who can call a Patch Tuesday. In a series of announcements that might have made Microsoft envious, Linux vendor Red Hat today issued four patches designed ...

This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called Ksplice. This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to ...

Google and Red Hat researchers released a patch for a critical remote code execution flaw in glibc 2.9 and later Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the GNU C library, glibc, that ...

Time is running out for anyone planning to ready their systems for the biggest time-related change since Y2K — the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change. As Americans turn their clocks ahead one hour this ...