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KDE Connect security advisory released due to possible authentication bypass

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:31:05 +0000

KDE Connect is a popular cross-platform app that allows you to send files across devices and more - with a security advisory being sent out due to a woops.

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New security advisory released for X.Org X server and Xwayland issues

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:32:59 +0000

Today, an X.Org Security Advisory was sent out that details multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland.

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Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware

Liam Dawe — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:14:17 +0000

Ouch, the Xubuntu website was recently hijacked and ended up serving Windows malware, and this isn't the first time the Xubuntu site was hit.

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Around 70,000 users affected in Discord related breach which includes some government ID images

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:04:23 +0000

Ouch. This whole ongoing online safety thing is going well isn't it? Who could have guessed that some personal data would end up leaking? Everyone with a brain.

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NVIDIA reveal new driver security issues for October 2025

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:03:41 +0000

NVIDIA just revealed more GPU driver security issues and so you should make sure you’re up to date.

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Unity devs are scrambling to update their games due to a recent security issue

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:41:15 +0000

The Unity team recently revealed a security issue in their game engine, with lots of developers scrambling to update their games.

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NVIDIA say no to adding backdoors and killswitches in their GPUs

Liam Dawe — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:51:19 +0000

NVIDIA have released a blog post from chief security officer, fighting back against attempts from pundits and policymakers in governments wanting backdoors.

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NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security issues for July 2025

Liam Dawe — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:27:35 +0000

Time to get updating your NVIDIA GPU driver, as more security issues have been revealed in their July 2025 Security Bulletin.

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AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed

Liam Dawe — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:00:17 +0000

Made public today is a fresh round of security issues, this time for AMD CPUs with Transient Scheduler Attacks.

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Sunshine game stream host for Moonlight gets security fixes, Linux improvements and more features

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:54:40 +0000

LizardByte released the latest major update to Sunshine, the game streaming host platform for Moonlight to stream games from one system to another.

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Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:23:26 +0000

Developer Olivier Fourdan announced multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland, with new versions being released.

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Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:34:44 +0000

Back in August 2024, Microsoft released an update for various versions of Windows including Windows 10 and 11 that broke dual-booting with Linux on some setups. They've now finally solved it.

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Here's a statement from Valve on the reported Steam data breach

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:51:42 +0000

There's been reports of a Steam data breach recently, and instead of jumping the gun I reached out to Valve first to see what was going on. Here's a statement from Valve.

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More Intel CPU security flaws revealed with Branch Privilege Injection

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:55:50 +0000

We only just had the reveal of Training Solo from VUSec for Intel and Arm, and now we have another security flaw in Intel CPUs with Branch Privilege Injection.

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VUSec reveal 'Training Solo', more security issues for Intel and Arm CPUs

Liam Dawe — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:42:23 +0000

Researchers at VUSec have revealed what they're calling "Training Solo", a set of security issues across Intel and Arm CPUs that sound pretty annoying and serious.

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NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:18:49 +0000

NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe.

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X.Org X server and Xwayland have 8 more security vulnerabilities revealed

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:28:12 +0000

You should probably keep an eye on your software updater, as the X.Org X server and Xwayland have more security vulnerabilities that have been announced.

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NVIDIA release new GPU driver updates for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues

Liam Dawe — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:01:11 +0000

Today, January 16th 2025, NVIDIA have revealed multiple security flaws in their GPU drivers, so it's time to get updating again.

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NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin

Liam Dawe — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:22:37 +0000

NVIDIA have released a security bulletin to detail new security issues, so it's time to update your GPU driver once again.

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Internet Archive hit with DDoS attacks and hacked with 31 million accounts hit

Liam Dawe — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:07:50 +0000

A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.

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Major flaw found in CUPS - time to run Linux system updates

Liam Dawe — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:11:25 +0000

Yesterday details went public about a major security issue that was found in CUPS, the open source printing system.

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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.14 Beta released with a Flatpak security fix

Liam Dawe — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:56:56 +0000

Valve released another small update to SteamOS 3.6 Beta for Steam Deck, bringing two small but important fixes as we're firmly on the road to the stable release.

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Microsoft Windows kernel changes don't suddenly mean big things for Linux gaming

Liam Dawe — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:43:13 +0000

There's a lot of blog posts and news articles being written right now centred around Microsoft's plans for updates to Windows 11, and potential kernel changes, with some thinking this means big things for Linux gaming.

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Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions

Liam Dawe — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:19:08 +0000

Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.

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Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:22:32 +0000

Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux? Well, a recent Windows update seems to have been a bit messy and may have broken the ability to boot into Linux. Causing an alarming message to display of "Something has gone seriously wrong".

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Flaw in OpenSSH Server nicknamed regreSSHion could cause some problems

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:07:43 +0000

If you're dealing with Linux servers, or you have an active OpenSSH Server on your desktop, you may want to look into regreSSHion.

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NVIDIA reveal new security issues in their GPU drivers for June 2024

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:11:17 +0000

Today NVIDIA put out a new security bulletin, to highlight multiple security issues identified in their proprietary graphics driver for Linux and Windows.

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Kaspersky release a free Virus Removal Tool for Linux

Liam Dawe — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:42:36 +0000

Well, this is interesting. Kaspersky have released KVRT (Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool), which is free to use to scan your systems for issues.

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More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:51:31 +0000

Back in January we had some security issues revealed in both X.Org and Xwayland, and here we are with a few more and so there's new versions available for both to fix them.

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Flathub now prominently notes unverified Flatpak apps

Liam Dawe — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:41:02 +0000

After all the issues with Canonical's Snap package scams lately, it seems the Flathub folks are continuing to ensure their platform is trustworthy.

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XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue

Liam Dawe — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:54:33 +0000

There's been an urgent security bulletin sent out in a few places today in the Linux sphere that relates to the XZ tools and libraries with liblzma, as certain version have been compromised.

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3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:17:08 +0000

Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

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Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store!

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:51:02 +0000

No this isn't a joke, sadly. Canonical once again have an issue with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.

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Apex Legends Global Series postponed due to mid-match hacks

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:19:05 +0000

Good Morning. Some interesting industry news for you here, as it seems Apex Legends has something of a hacker problem right now that has even messed up the Global Series esport tournament. Note: ARTICLE UPDATED.

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NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28

Liam Dawe — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:28:22 +0000

NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.

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Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app

Liam Dawe — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:21:41 +0000

Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.

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Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access

Liam Dawe — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:54:55 +0000

Well, here's another reminder to keep your PC up to date. Despite Linux being known for security, it's not perfect (no software is) and researchers at Qualys have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library.

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Framework email customers for data breach from accounting partner getting phished

Liam Dawe — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:27:05 +0000

No one is safe from data breaches, and at times it won't even be the company you've directly interacted and purchased from but their partners, like what recently happened to Framework.

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X.Org and Xwayland get new releases due to security issues

Liam Dawe — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:21:11 +0000

Here's another reminder that checking regularly for updates is always a good thing, because there's new releases available for both the X.Org X and Xwayland due to multiple reported security issues.

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NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues

Liam Dawe — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:27:13 +0000

NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.

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Snap store from Canonical hit with malicious apps

Liam Dawe — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:15:47 +0000

Canonical are currently dealing with a security incident with the Snap store, after users noticed multiple fake apps were uploaded so temporary limits have been put in place.

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Linux kernel gets an AMD Zenbleed fix for the Steam Deck APU

Liam Dawe — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:54:46 +0000

One security issue I somehow missed back in July was Zenbleed, an issue with AMD CPUs that's getting patched up in the Linux kernel and now the Steam Deck is getting a kernel fix for it too.

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Downfall is a new 'severe' flaw in Intel CPUs, while AMD deal with INCEPTION

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:56:25 +0000

Uh oh! Another rather serious security flaw has been found in Intel CPUs named Downfall, so here's a bit of info on it. Additionally, AMD are also dealing with INCEPTION.

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CurseForge and Bukkit get hit with malware for Minecraft mods

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:14:28 +0000

Just a bit of a PSA here for anyone diving into Minecraft modding, as recently there's been a problem on both CurseForge and Bukkit with malware.

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NVIDIA release details of security issues and release new drivers

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:26:04 +0000

NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple security issues discovered.

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You may want to run system updates, after a recent sudo security flaw

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:45:51 +0000

It was pointed out to me recently in the GamingOnLinux Discord, that the sudo package recently had a security flaw, so time to check for updates.

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NVIDIA announce new security issues, make sure you have updated drivers

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:22:42 +0000

Here we are again. NVIDIA has today sent out a security bulletin to inform users on Linux and Windows to ensure your GPU drivers are up to date due to freshly revealed security problems.

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Have a Dell desktop or laptop? You should upgrade your firmware now

Liam Dawe — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:38:03 +0000

Cloud security company Eclypsium has revealed that Dell desktops, laptops and tablets have multiple vulnerabilities.

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Google detail 'Half-Double', a new Rowhammer vulnerability for DRAM

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 May 2021 09:10:28 +0000

Is nothing sacred any more? Gosh, there's vulnerabilities everywhere. Just when you thought you were safe after updating to protect your CPU, now there's this. Thought RAM vendors had fixed Rowhammer from 2014? Think again, it's back with Half-Double.

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Seems like we haven't seen the last of Spectre, UVA Engineering discover new CPU attacks

Liam Dawe — Sat, 01 May 2021 07:55:53 +0000

Spectre is one in a list of critical vulnerabilities in modern processors that was discovered over the last few years, and it seems it's not been solved yet.

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