Akrites is a coalition of 19 organizations, including every major AI lab and Wall Street banks, built to defend open-source ...

Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a new ...

On April 29, 2026, security researchers at Theori and Xint Code publicly disclosed CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability they named Copy Fail. Any unprivileged local user ...

A logic flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nearly nine years lets any unprivileged local user gain root access on virtually every mainstream Linux distribution shipped since 2017, ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

All Linux kernels released after 2017 are vulnerable to critical privilege escalation bugs. A tiny 732-byte exploit grants root privileges across all major Linux distributions, with containerized ...

I’ve been torrenting legally for over fifteen years — Linux ISOs, Creative Commons music, public domain films, open-source software builds. And during that time, I’ve watched the threat landscape ...

Canonical has officially released the beta version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed Resolute Raccoon. And this isn’t just another incremental update—this long-term support (LTS) release introduces some ...

Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still ignore basic advisories. This edition covers a ...

As these examples show, vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades—and attacks can come at any time. In 2021, a vulnerability was revealed in a system that lay at the ...