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Researchers found a total of 37 security vulnerabilities impacting four open-source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) implementations and present for the last 20 years, since 1999. The flaws were found ...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven new Linux-related vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that they’re being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are ...
As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka "Looney Tunables," isn't horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical. On the other ...
Detecting vulnerabilities and managing the associated patching is challenging even in a small-scale Linux environment. Scale things up and the challenge becomes almost unsurmountable. There are ...
If it's not one thing, it's another. After one real Linux problem -- the heap overflow bug in the Linux kernel's fs/fs_context.c program -- is found and fixed, then a new security problem is ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As the risks of cyberattacks that are related to security vulnerabilities continuously grow ...
Comparison of security postures for containers and different types of hypervisors. Key measures of software security. Security certifications for virtualization solutions. How to improve the security ...
A new set of remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) in Linux environments has been discovered. These flaws, rated with a critical CVSS score of ...
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, aka ICS-CERT, was busy in November issuing alerts about medical device makers while tech stalwarts Apple and Google sent security ...
Open source vulnerabilities rose by nearly 50 percent in 2019 over the previous year, based on a report released Thursday. Common vulnerabilities rated as high or critical severity were found in all ...