Organizations must look beyond operating system protections to develop holistic strategies addressing their entire digital ...

Microsoft is developing a new security model built around a safer kernel architecture. To strengthen the security of its ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

GrapheneOS is a full-fledged operating system with a security-hardened memory allocator, patches for the Chromium web browser, and an Auditor app that “uses hardware-based security features to ...

Steve Manzuik: Your operating system choice does not equal security. I cannot put that any more simply than that. If your company employs experts in Linux then it makes sense to standardize on Linux.

Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that significantly alter how the operating systems handle virtual memory in order to protect against a hitherto undisclosed flaw. This ...

The high-security Qubes OS can be an effective part of a defense-in-depth solution. “Assume breach and compartmentalize” are wise words for both your network and for operating system design ...

Windows XP running as a separate operating system in VirtualBox on Windows 7. From here, it’s VirtualBox as usual. We won’t get into the nitty-gritty of how to set up a virtual machine, but ...

For example, according to the report, more than 2,000 organizations run more than 50 percent of their computers on outdated versions of an operating system and more than 8,500 organizations have more ...

CESG, the UK government's arm that assesses operating systems and software security, has published its findings for ‘End User Device’ operating systems. The most secure of the lot? Ubuntu 12.04.