Linux kernel privilege escalation exploit DirtyClone (CVE-2026-43503) is publicly documented: JFrog published a working attack walkthrough Thursday showing how any local user can gain root on ...

Akrites is a coalition of 19 organizations, including every major AI lab and Wall Street banks, built to defend open-source ...

The Linux Foundation introduces Akrites, a joint effort to report, fix, and disclose vulnerabilities in open source software.

OpenAI has deployed GPT-5.5-Cyber to execute automated open-source vulnerability remediation alongside security firm Trail of ...

A Handful of Senior Maintainers Review Almost All of Them. They Are Already Behind, and the Gap Is Getting Wider. This is not a new problem. It is a structural one. More patches, same number of expert ...

Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw came down ...

Scientists aren’t usually thrilled when reviewers of their research papers ask for extensive revisions ahead of publication. But the stress that authors experience might pay off in the long run. An ...

Major Linux distributions are rushing to fix two new vulnerabilities after the disclosure embargo was broken. The vulnerability, comprised of two chained issues in subsystems of the Linux kernel and ...

AI agents have fundamentally changed the threat model of AI model-based applications. By equipping these models with plugins (also called tools), your agents no longer just generate text; they now ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as ...

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