GhostLock Exposes an Uncomfortable Truth About Open Source Security

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When researchers announced GhostLock, many people focused on the exploit. What stood out to me wasn’t just what the vulnerability could do, but how long it had remained hidden. The flaw had lived in the Linux kernel for roughly 15 years before it was publicly identified by researchers. That means the flaw survived hundreds of kernel releases and years of upstream development before it was publicly documented. It raises an uncomfortable question about one of open source’s oldest assumptions. O…LinuxSecurity – Security ArticlesRead More