Kernel News and Articles

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Security-conscious people dig a deep moat with crocodiles around their homes, hide their furniture in back rooms, and only let visitors into the bathroom if they know the secret password. Grsecurity follows a similarly extreme principle.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Rootkits allow attackers to take complete control of a computer. We describe the tricks intruders use to gain access to the Linux kernel and provide guidelines on hardening the kernel against such attacks.

Programs rarely reveal what they are doing in the background, but a few clever tools, of interest to both programmers and administrators, monitor this activity and log system functions.