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.

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 ...

Copy Fail was identified by Theori’s researchers with assistance from their Xint Code AI tool. According to a blog post, ...

A high-severity Linux vulnerability, “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431), enables root privilege escalation across cloud ...

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

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 ...