Security researchers have discovered bugs when parsing long file system paths in Linux-based operating systems that can be used to crash them and for local privilege escalation to the root superuser.

I will confess. I started writing this post about some stupid systemd tricks. However, I wanted to explain a little about systemd first, and that wound up being longer than the tricks. So this Linux ...

A bug in systemd — an init system used in many Linux distributions to start and manage processes — allows an attacker to crash or take over machines via malicious DNS packets. Canonical developer ...

Many Linux sysadmins and users dislike Systemd, but love it or hate it, the Systemd is the default system and service manager for most Linux distributions. So, security company Qualys's recent ...

Control services, read logs, profile boot time, and inspect crashes with these four built-in systemd tools.