After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

Kernel Mode Linux (KML) is a technology that enables the execution of ordinary user-space programs inside kernel space. This article presents the background, an approach and an implementation of KML.

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

For three decades, Linux has been written in the programming language C. But change could be coming. There's growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

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 ...