The Assassin in the Tarball: An Open-Source Tragedy in Three Acts
A suspicious CPU spike, a poisoned release, and a community that caught the blade mid-swing.
6 transmissions tagged #linux
A suspicious CPU spike, a poisoned release, and a community that caught the blade mid-swing.
Snyk’s deep dive into a NixOS privilege escalation is a reminder that immutable and secure are not synonyms, no matter how pretty your config.nix looks.
A two-year courtship, a backdoor in the wings, and one engineer who heard the orchestra go wrong.
The original Secure Boot certificates from 2011 start expiring in June. Microsoft calls it 'one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem.' I call it a firmware Jenga tower.
Five famous error messages take a bow — and a knife — in a dramatic review.
The kernel hits a cosmetic milestone while the Rust-vs-C war reaches an uneasy armistice.