In the long ago times, when phones still flipped and modems sang proudly the songs of their people, I sent away for a set of Slackware CDs and embarked on a most remarkable journey. Back then, running ...

Penetration testing, often referred to as pen testing, is a critical practice in the field of cybersecurity. It involves simulating cyber-attacks on a system, network, or web application to identify ...

The industry appears to have been spared from potentially massive impacts of the open-source attack, after the insertion of a backdoor by a project maintainer was quickly caught by a Microsoft ...

The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ...

One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking contest, the promoters of the CanSecWest security research conference are thinking about giving hackers another shot at cracking the Mac.

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...