If you’ve ever done Linux memory forensics, you know the frustration: without debug symbols that match the exact kernel version, you’re stuck. These symbols aren’t typically installed on production ...

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...

Major Update Brings Rust Bindings, Native UI with Slint, Archive Management, Closures, Subprocess Control, and ...

Beneath a process’ directory are further directories and files that give more information about the process, such as its process id, its active threads, the files that it has open, and so on. procfs ...

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. Although the attacks described in the two reports use ...

A new multiplatform ransomware strain is attracting attention for the speed at which it can encrypt systems, despite having relatively simple code. The key to its speed is the malware's aggressive use ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Abstract: The increasing energy consumption of software and hardware systems has become a significant concern due to its environmental impact and operational costs. While operating systems like ...

The best kind of Hackaday posts are the ones where there was some insurmountable problem with an elegant solution devised through deep analysis of the problem and creativity. This is not one of those ...

Attackers are wielding a novel Linux backdoor against the education and public sectors in the US and Asia that demonstrates particularly stealthy ways to avoid both detection and deletion from a ...