When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on ...

With both Red Hat and SUSE behind it, live patching will soon be the default in all serious business Linux distributions. Related Stories: Linux kernel turns over release odometer to 4.0 ...

Attackers are free-riding Linux servers with an unpatched Samba bug to mine for the monero cryptocurrency. Now would be a good time install a patch released by open-source project Samba on May 25 ...

The more work patching is, the more likely a sysadmin will put it off or skip doing it entirely. The second problem is that manual patch management relies too much on the sysadmin's ability to ...

Linux hits a new milestone, as live kernel patching lands in the new release. Linus Torvalds, however, doesn't see a lot of special new features in Linux 4.0.

I previously have discussed SMB security in Linux Journal, and I am no longer of the opinion that SMB server processes should run on Linux. In any case, systems administrators of all architectures ...

Two elevation of privilege vulnerabilities have been discovered on the popular Sudo utility, affecting 30-50 million ...

Don’t necessarily expect your Linux desktop to get rebootless patching any time soon, as this requires some work to implement. But it’s a big deal for Linux servers and clusters that need all ...

Software flaw threatens Linux servers ... The company has completed its own patch for Mandrake Linux but still has to test it more fully, said Danen, who expected it to be ready on Monday.