Malicious actors with code execution capability may gain root access on Linux systems using as few as 10 lines of Python, according to a researcher.

CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

Around 80,000 to 140,000 people are killed by snakes each year, but only around 600 of the nearly 4,000 species of snake are venomous. This shows us that only a small percentage of snakes are ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

CISA has warned that threat actors have started exploiting the "Copy Fail" Linux security vulnerability in the wild, one day ...

The death of the defense minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, a central figure in the country’s military government, comes amid escalating violence in the region. By Ruth Maclean and Max Kim Ruth Maclean ...

Omaha police on Tuesday shot and killed a woman they say slashed a young boy with a knife outside of a Walmart after taking him from another woman inside the store. The suspect approached a female ...

ST. ALBANS, Queens (WABC) -- An investigation is underway after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot at a park in Queens on Thursday. The shooting took place around 6:15 p.m. at Roy Wilkins Park on ...

A student at West Chester University in Chester County has died after being hit by a car over the weekend, the school said in a statement. "Last evening, one of our students was struck by a vehicle ...

Tanner Horner’s mother asked if he had done anything “weird” to Athena Strand on a jailhouse phone call Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

A West Chester University student was hit and killed by a car Sunday, a school official said. Now, people at the university are remembering the young man they say meant so much to so many. The student ...