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This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

  • Mike Kershaw--Hackaday
  • published date: 2026-05-01 14:00:29 UTC

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privileges escalations are never good, …read more

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privil… [+11790 chars]