Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping This GnuTLS bug is worse than the big Apple "goto fail" bug patched last week.

Because Linux exists in more places than the average computer user might realize, and the Linux distributions, or variants, affected by this security flaw are among the most widely used.

In an exhaustive study of critical Linux vulnerabilities, a team of academic and government-backed researchers claim to have proven that almost all flaws could be mitigated to less than critical ...

A critical Linux bug that many are comparing to the “goto fail” problem that afflicted Apple last month was recently discovered, prompting Linux distribution and application developers to ...

Critical Linux vulnerability imperils users, even after “silent” fix A month after critical bug was quietly fixed, "root" vulnerability persists.

Such enumeration problems leave Linux to rely more on anecdotes than statistical analysis to measure its success, but according to Kuznetsky, few companies use Linux for mission-critical systems yet.

The rise of Linux in the global server landscape hasn’t gone unnoticed. Today, the open-source operating system (OS) resides on critical servers and powers applications for a vast array of ...

A critical vulnerability in glibc, a core Linux library, can be exploited remotely through WordPress and likely other PHP applications to compromise Web servers. The buffer overflow vulnerability ...

Mission Critical Linux faces increasing competition from Red Hat, which is working on a high-end version of Linux that has some similarities to Convolo.