The Linux Kernel Build System has four main components: Config symbols: compilation options that can be used to compile code conditionally in source files and to decide which objects to include in a ...

Operating systems are the core of our digital civilization. Hack-proofing them means that billions of devices - PCs, network switches, IoT devices, drones and much more - are much more secure.

Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager that could have allowed for the bypass of privileges in Google’s Chrome browser. Microsoft appears ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new ...

enabling an updated FudModule rootkit version to perform direct kernel object manipulation. This new FudModule version comes with significant stealth and functionality improvements, including new ...

All object code (created from your ASM and C files) will form bits and pieces of your kernel. To finalize the compilation, you'll use a linker to take all necessary object files, combine them, and ...

A security researcher has discovered a security flaw in the Linux kernel using the OpenAI o3 reasoning model. An official ...

The rootkit uses a trick to hijack the standard C library (libc) functions without actually installing any kernel objects. Libc provides system call functions that other Linux programs can use for ...