With just a mere 48 characters of code, Linux admin and SSLMate founder Andrew Ayer has figured out how to crash major Linux distributions ... among the lowest risk classes by being local ...

A sysadmin has developed 48 characters of code that he claims can crash most popular Linux distributions. Andrew Ayer, a Linux administrator and founder of SSLMate, explains his code works by crashing ...

system used in many modern Linux distributions to bootstrap the user space and manage all processes. Many regular Linux users might not even understand what systemd is, and that's because it just ...

Numerous Linux distributions are patching a serious flaw that has remained unnoticed in the kernel since about 2005. The so-called double-free bug in the Linux kernel has been or is in the process ...

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux distributions will soon have their own Blue Screen of Death message. It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux ...

It's a small change to a single software project, but systemd manages services and system settings for the vast majority of the big Linux distributions, including but not limited to Debian ...