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Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC

Oracle on Tuesday described new EBCDIC character set compatibility features in Oracle AI Database for customers transitioning from legacy databases on IBM [...]

July 29, 2026

JDK 27: The new features of Java 27

Java Development Kit 27, an Oracle-driven, planned update to standard Java, is set to reach its initial release candidate (RC) stage on August 6. This [...]

July 29, 2026

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

UPDATED Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in [...]

July 29, 2026

Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems

Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 [...]

July 29, 2026

Substituting IP address evaluation with hardware-rooted sovereign zero trust

The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent [...]

July 29, 2026

Strengthening the open source defense layer: Red Hat joins NVIDIA in the Open Secure AI Alliance

As AI capabilities advance, they transform the security landscape in real time. To address these challenges at scale, no single company can act in [...]

July 29, 2026

openSUSE nsd Important TLS Denial of Service Vulnern 2026-0265-1

July 29, 2026

Ubuntu Kernel Update USN-8616-1 Privilege Escalation Risk

July 29, 2026

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Notice USN-8615-1 Multiple Flaws

July 29, 2026

Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Kernel KVM Critical Escalation Flaws USN-8617-1

July 29, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 Linux Kernel Vulnerability Resolutions USN-8547-2

July 29, 2026

Why open source matters in an AI world

I’m an old Borland guy. I started using Borland tools in the early 1990s, from Turbo Pascal through Delphi. I dabbled in Paradox. I even tried to stick [...]

July 29, 2026

Soothe your Python frustrations the smart way

For a programming language that is prized for being convenient and easy, Python has some surprising barbs and sharp edges. Find out how a new pip flag can [...]

July 29, 2026

Debian LTS calibre DLA-4705-1 Critical SSRF and Injection Vulnerabilities

July 29, 2026

Critical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Kernel Issues With Patch USN-8620-2

July 29, 2026

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Threat USN-8615-2

July 29, 2026

Rocky Linux nodejs Important Denial of Service Update RLSA-2026-47059

July 29, 2026

Debian libraw Significant Vulnerability In Application Crash Data Integrity

July 29, 2026

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

The US government has decided to effectively ban the sale of advanced robots made in other nations. The decision trickled out over two days with [...]

July 29, 2026

Slackware Samba Important DoS LDAP Issues Fix SSA-2026-209-03

July 29, 2026

Slackware Seamonkey Security Fix 2026-209-02 for Version 15.0

July 29, 2026

Slackware Libarchive Security Update Announcement for 2026-209-01

July 29, 2026

Fedora 43 Chromium CVE-2026-16807 Out of Bounds Use After Free Issues

July 29, 2026

Fedora 43 Restic Critical Update Denial of Service Issues 2026-a006788209

July 29, 2026

Fedora 43 Kronosnet Low Memory Exposure ACL Spoofing Issues Found

July 29, 2026

Fedora 43 btrbk 0.32.7 CVE-2026-62943 Security Fix Advisory

July 29, 2026

Fedora 43 gpsd Important Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-58459

July 29, 2026

Fedora 44 Chromium Update CVE-2026-16807 Out of Bounds Write

July 29, 2026

Fedora 44 Kronosnet Weakness Poses Low Access Control and Encryption Risk

July 29, 2026

Fedora 44 Restic Update 0.19.1 Includes Important Denial of Service Fixes

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Samba Important Vulnerabilities Patch 2026-3362-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Samba Important Vulnerability Fixes 2026-3364-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Samba Important Security Update Advisory 2026-3365-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Samba Important Multiple Issues Patch 2026-3366-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE sssd Moderate Use After Free Resolution 2026-3368-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important DoS Buffer Overflow Vulnern 2026-3354-1

July 29, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important Security Update CVE-2026-53359 CVE-2026-53366

July 29, 2026

MCP gets an enterprise makeover

The Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, has released an update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that aims to help enterprises adopt [...]

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux 10 Libreswan Important Denial of Service Fix RLSA-2026-46398

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux Unbound Important DoS Issues Fix RLSA-2026-36320

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux 10 go-fdo-server Major Privilege Escalation DoS RLSA-2026-46395

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux go-fdo-client Important Denial of Service RLSA-2026-46394

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux unbound Important Denial of Service Risks RLSA-2026-36777

July 28, 2026

JFrog’s 0-days let OpenAI’s models hack Hugging Face

UPDATED We now know how OpenAI’s models broke out of their cages to attack Hugging Face. The rogue models found zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s [...]

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux nodejs Important Denial of Service Fixes RLSA-2026-47060

July 28, 2026

Rocky Linux Unbound Important Denial of Service Fix RLSA-2026-37282

July 28, 2026

openSUSE yq Important Security Fix for CVE-2026-39821 and CVE-2026-56852

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Nginx Important Buffer Overflow and DoS Fix 2026-3329-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE libssh Moderate Denial of Service Flaw 2026-3330-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Java-21-OpenJDK Denial of Service Info Disclosure CVE-2026-3332-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE ImageMagick Important CVE-2026-56379 Fix Advisory 2026-3335-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE WebKit2GTK3 Important Memory Corruption Process Crash 2026-3338-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE nmap Moderate Out-of-Bounds Issue CVE-2026-58058 2026-3340-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE glib2 Important Buffer Overflow Issues Fixed 2026-3341-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important Fix for Two Security Issues Advisory 2026-3350-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important Fix for IPV6 and KVM Issues 2026-3351-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important Fix Various Threats Vuln 2026-3344-1

July 28, 2026

openSUSE Kernel Important Fix for Five Security Issues 2026-3345-1

July 28, 2026

Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

Two agentic bug-hunting systems from Microsoft and Google-owned Wiz show that when it comes to finding and remediating software vulnerabilities, at least [...]

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu FreeRDP RDP Client Significant Clipboard Regression Fix USN-8561-2

July 28, 2026

Mageia 10 gstreamer1.0-libav Heap Corruption CVE-2026-52717

July 28, 2026

Mageia libslirp Critical TCP OOB Read Info Leak Vulnerability CVE-2026-9539

July 28, 2026

Debian hplip Important Escalation and Code Exec Risks DSA-6402-1

July 28, 2026

DEF CON bans Meta-style ‘pervert glasses’

Ahead of DEF CON 2026 opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on “Meta-style glasses with recording [...]

July 28, 2026

AI-found bugs aren’t proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing may have uncovered tens of thousands of potential security flaws, but new research suggests AI-assisted vulnerability [...]

July 28, 2026

Mak’s Weekly Security Roundup: Linux Security Priorities This Week

The volume of Linux security advisories remains high across enterprise distributions, but the more difficult task is determining which updates carry the [...]

July 28, 2026

Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears

CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The [...]

July 28, 2026

Linux Logs Have Become a Prompt Injection Target

An attacker may no longer need to erase Linux logs to hide an intrusion. They may only need the AI reading them to believe a different story.

July 28, 2026

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

America wants its allies to come together and help it lead the way in defining 6G communications standards, with security and resilience seen as key goals [...]

July 28, 2026

Anthropic rejects open-weight AI bans, calls for China chip controls and safety tests

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier [...]

July 28, 2026

Debian 11 OpenJDK 11 Major Threats Fixed DLA-4702-1 CVE-2026-41254

July 28, 2026

Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock

A critical flaw in Arista’s VeloCloud Orchestrator has gone from zero to KEV in short order, with the networking giant confirming attackers are [...]

July 28, 2026

Lessons from Tesla’s AI strategy

For years, the public cloud was the default for new workloads because its convenience, elasticity, and breadth of services made sense. However, as AI’s [...]

July 28, 2026

Will open weights make AI more honest?

Last month I asked Claude’s Fable 5 model to read four 18th-century probate wills. It responded by fabricating a family. For more than 20 years, I’ve been [...]

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Kernel Alert USN-8620-1 CVE-2023-45896 High Risk

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 Linux Kernel Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnern 2025-8619-1

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Kernel Important Security Issues Fix USN-8595-3

Ubuntu has released security updates addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for versions 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS, requiring immediate user action [...]

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu Kernel USN-8574-3 Multiple Security Flaws Affecting System Integrity

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Issues Severity Important USN-8570-2

July 28, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Kernel Update Privilege Escalation USN-8618-1 CVE-2025-54518

July 28, 2026

Mageia SQLite Moderate NULL Pointer Denial of Service 2026-0305

July 28, 2026

Mageia 10 Memcached Security Update Advisory ID 2026-0304

July 28, 2026

Mageia 10 gscan2pdf Bugfix Advisory for Issue 2026-0073 Released

July 28, 2026

Fedora 43 opkssh Low GQ-commitment PK Tokens Advisory 2026-168280f3c4

July 28, 2026

Fedora 43 Perl-Mojolicious Important CSRF Token Fix FEDORA-2026-6f12b08313

July 28, 2026

Fedora 43 RPM Heap Overflow and Command Injection Vulnerability Advisory

July 28, 2026

Fedora 44 opkssh Low GQ-commitment PK Tokens Issue Advisory 2026-a0bf40ecfe

July 28, 2026

Fedora 44 perl-Mojolicious Critical CSRF Attack Mitigation 2026-4334fd85bc

July 28, 2026

Fedora 44 rpm Command Injection Buffer Overflow Fix for 2026-9985882270

July 28, 2026

Kotlin previews support for coroutine stack trace recovery

JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.4.20-Beta2, an update to the company’s multiplatform programming language that has emerged with capabilities ranging from [...]

July 28, 2026

SUSE wpa_supplicant Low RADIUS Auth Security Issue 2026-3281-1

July 28, 2026

SUSE perl-DBI Important Code Execution DoS Issues 2026-3283-1

July 28, 2026

SUSE Java 11 OpenJDK Important Security Update 2026-3284-1

July 28, 2026

SUSE Python-Tornado Important Auth and Memory Fix 2026-3291-1

July 28, 2026

SUSE Kernel RT Important Security Advisory 2026-3286-1 for Six Issues

July 28, 2026

SUSE Kernel Important Update for Multiple Security Issues 2026-3289-1