A little while ago, my Linux machine was running excruciatingly slow. I attempted a few fixes: data management, optimization, adjusting Timeshift backups. That sort of thing. During that adventure, I ...

Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass ...

The results of the user namespaces work on Linux have been a long time in coming, probably because they are the most complex of the various namespaces that have been added to the kernel so far. The ...

Those running Ubuntu 23.10 and newer need to make some changes to their system configuration to deal with serious issues with the new unprivileged user namespaces feature. These namespaces should ...

Linux capabilities are a sparsely used kernel facility to add granularity to the set of privileges that a process can have. By using capabilities, an administrator can grant a process a limited set of ...

Today Edera launched a new open-source project called Styrolite to bring tighter controls to the interactions between containers and Linux kernel namespaces, at a layer below where Open Container ...