Linux gets double-quick double-update to fix kernel Oops!

Linux doesn't BSoD. It has oopses and panics instead. (We show you how to make a kernel module to explore further.)

Serious Security: How to improve cryptography, resist supply chain attacks, and handle data breaches

Lessons for us all: improve cryptography, fight cybercrime, own your supply chain... and don't steal my data and then pretend you're sorry.

PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the "nightly" build were affected.

S3 Ep73: Ransomware with a difference, dirty Linux pipes, and much more [Podcast + Transcript]

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“Dirty Pipe” Linux kernel bug lets anyone write to any file

Even read-only files can be written to, leading to a dangerously general purpose elevation-of-privilege attack.

Linux kernel patches “performance can be harmful” bug in video driver

This bug is fiendishly hard to exploit - but if you patch, it won't be there to exploit at all.

“PwnKit” security bug gets you root on most Linux distros – what to do

An elevation of privilege bug that could let a "mostly harmless" user give themselves a instant root shell

S3 Ep66: Cybercrime busts, wormable Windows, and the crisis of featuritis [Podcast + Transcript]

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Serious Security: Linux full-disk encryption bug fixed – patch now!

Imagine if someone who didn't have your password could sneakily modify data that was encrypted with it.