Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, ported Linux over to the PS5 and ran GTA V on it via Steam. The best part? It actually plays really well, without any issues.

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

Today, we’re presenting more reader comments regarding last week’s newsletter about mi2g’s study. The study found Linux to be the most-attacked operating system for PCs attached to the Internet. While ...

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...

The Register says Linux hackers have developed Car Whisperer software, which with a directional antenna and laptop lets folks hack into vehicles’ unsecured Bluetooth hands-free cell phone setups and ...

After staging a controversial Mac-hacking contest last year, CanSecWest may expanding its horizons and add Linux and Vista contests as well One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking ...

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Jon Erickson, No Starch Press, 2008) is an intense, thorough and extremely well written book that can take you from basic hacking concepts to building ...

A Costly Potato: After spending 12 years on the market, the Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) has inspired a lot of DIY computing projects. The newly released Hackberry-Pi_Zero is one such ...