Vulnerability

A nine-year-old bug in the Linux kernel lets any logged-in user become root in seconds, on nearly every Linux server and desktop released since 2017. Here is what it is, how it works, and what to do about it.

A ransomware negotiator feeding victims’ insurance limits to BlackCat, an OAuth mistake that cost Vercel, 163 Microsoft patches, a new ransomware gang experimenting with post-quantum crypto, 481 Oracle patches, and NIS2 enforcement going live.