Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal for the past three years and a half have been using a blank (NULL) password for the root account, security researchers from ...

Privileged Unix accounts are a concern because of their enormous power and simultaneous lack of accountability. In Unix and Linux, privilege can be established two ways: by using a root account that ...

An unknown hacker has temporarily taken control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embedded malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user ...

Recently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux in relation to a project that I have been working on. Although I have occasionally dabbled in Linux, it ...

A security vulnerability in the Official Docker images based on the Alpine Linux distribution allowed for more than three years logging into the root account using a blank password. Tracked as ...

Today, Microsoft is releasing its weekly Edge Dev build, bringing the version number to 91.0.838.3. It has a bunch of new features, like turning on Microsoft account support on Linux by default. This ...

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the ...