In an era where security threats continually evolve, protecting the heart of an operating system, the kernel, has never been more critical. One tool gaining traction in the Linux world is the Linux ...

After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...

The Bcachefs file system recently hit a major milestone, but not the one developers hoped for. Linus Torvalds officially removed the core Bcachefs code from the main Linux kernel tree. This definitive ...

In this article we’ll dive into the technical details of a real world rootkit, explore how that rootkit compromises an operating system, and then learn how Kernel Integrity Measurement technology ...

As more and more people adopt virtualization technology, the search for reliable alternatives to VMware is on the rise. Although VMware has long been a leader in this field, offering a robust suite of ...

ABSTRACT: The Negative Binomial Multiple Change Point Algorithm is a hybrid change detection and estimation approach that works well for overdispersed and equidispersed count data. This simulation ...

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A new loadable kernel module (LKM) rootkit has been spotted in the wild compromising Linux systems with advanced stealth and privilege escalation features. PUMAKIT, as called by the Elastic Security ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Linux rootkit called PUMAKIT that comes with capabilities to escalate privileges, hide files and directories, and conceal itself from system tools, while ...

kernel extensions (code integrated into the mainline kernel) implementing networking support for processes with per-user privileges and providing the new system calls pre_accept, set_net_user and ...