News broke on Saturday that the website of Linux Mint, said to be the third most-popular Linux operating system distribution, had been hacked, and was tricking users all day by serving up downloads ...

An anonymous hacker has succeeded in running Linux on an unmodified Xbox, apparently satisfying a $100,000 challenge funded by Lindows founder Michael Robertson. A hacker using the name Habibi-Xbox ...

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot, ...

It’s the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux vs. Mac OS X vs. Vista. Who will get hacked first? That’s what organizers of the CanSecWest security conference hope to discover this week ...

Hackers have developed new Java-based ransomware that targets Windows and Linux devices. According to Techcrunch's latest report, a new kind of ransomware was discovered by security researchers. They ...

According to new research, uninitialized variables -­- largely overlooked bugs mostly regarded as insignificant memory errors -- are actually a critical attack vector that can be reliably exploited by ...