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The SUSE Security Team Blog has a post with an analysis of seunshare, which is used by SELinux [...]

Processes that use io_uring tend to keep a lot of balls in the air; being able to have many operations underway at any given time is part of the point of that API in the first place. The io_uring subsystem must, as a result, keep track of a lot of ...

The CMU CERT Coordination Center has put out an advisory that many exploitable versions of the [...]

Rob Kennedy has posted the story of the birth of Linux.org -- one of the earliest Linux-related [...]

The Maintainers Summit is an annual, invitation-only gathering of kernel developers and maintai [...]

Tetragon, the BPF-based security monitoring tool, uses BPF to monitor different aspects of a running kernel and enforce user-specified policies. It sends its data to a user-space process, which forwards the data to a central monitoring service ...

Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches across the company's many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke about his work preventing exploits with BPF at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory ...

Debian has announced the final normal update for Debian 12 ('bookworm'). Long-term-support upd [...]

The 7.2-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Things continue to look normal (t [...]

Our article "Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge", published in early 2025, discussed the problem of widespread scraping of web sites in search of training data for large language models and related projects. This activity overwhelms sites with ...