Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat and others have built an uncannily similar privilege escalation flaw into their Intel-based products.

Widespread reports of reboot issues on some Intel systems force the chip giant to pump the brakes on rolling out patches for side-channel vulnerabilities.

Android receives three remote code execution patches for vulnerabilities rated critical as Google launches a new Pixel/Nexus Security Bulletin.

Several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s implementation of the Linux kernel, including a use-after-free vulnerability and a timing side-channel vulnerability, were patched today. An advisory issued by Ubuntu Wednesday morning urges users to patch if they’re running 14.04 LTS or any derivative builds. The update fixes a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel’s CXGB3 driver that an attacker could...