The Nokia E6, the 2011 Symbian business phone with a QWERTY keypad and a 640x480 touchscreen, is getting a second life as a Linux machine. Developer fluffleswaffles has brought up Linux 6.12 on it.

A critical Linux kernel vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-99999, dubbed PwnEscape, can break the isolation boundary between virtual machines and their underlying hosts. The flaw resides in the Linux ...

A critical flaw in the Linux kernel may allow an attacker-controlled virtual machine (VM) to breach its isolation boundary and impact the host system. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-99999 ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has now begun using AI to write code for the operating system’s kernel. In a new coding project, he has used Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude Code, to develop eight code ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, one of them rated critical. The three security issues were ...

Attackers could exploit the flaws to cause denial-of-service conditions, disclose memory, or modify memory. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has expanded its Known Exploited ...

Anthropic announced it will embed Accenture employees within the company to help test the safety of its AI models. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a three-step plan to slow the pace of ...

A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all ...

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per ...

If you're responsible for Linux security, someone just dumped a pile of work onto your desk: 432 Linux kernel CVEs were published across Sunday and Monday this week. Linux watchers at nixCraft pointed ...

Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.

Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. "Dirty Frag is a vulnerability (class) that achieves root privileges on most ...