In my recent post about the handling of the security incident and compromised ISO image at Linux Mint, I said at the end that users should always verify the checksum of a downloaded image before ...

Lefebvre wrote on Sunday, "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it." Specifically, the hacker, whom we now know goes by Peace, ...

“I’m sorry I have to come with bad news,” wrote Clement Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, before announcing Linux Mint suffered an intrusion; on February 20, “hackers made a modified Linux ...

On Saturday, Linux Mint disclosed that someone had compromised their website and made changes to links in order to direct users to malicious downloads. Update (2/26/16): Level 3 Threat Research Labs ...

No one ever looks at checksums, claims the attacker behind the Linux Mint breach. That needs to change. The attack against Linux Mint’s website, where users were tricked into downloading a modified ...

Don't normally post here, so apologies if this is the wrong place or it's already been posted elsewhere. Apparently linuxmint.com has been hacked and any ISOs of Mint 17.3 Cinnamon directly downloaded ...

Mint is the distro everyone recommends to Windows users. I daily-drove it for 2 weeks to see what’s great, what’s not, and ...

Another great update for the Ubuntu Linux spinoff.

Installing Linux on a computer, once you know what you’re doing, really isn’t a difficult process. After getting accustomed to the ins and outs of downloading ISO images, creating bootable media, and ...