Roger A. Grimes is a contributing editor. Roger holds more than 40 computer certifications and has authored ten books on computer security. He has been fighting malware and malicious hackers since ...

Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C ...

If Marvin the Martian makes it onto your computer and does privilege escalation to take it over, we might now know just how they did it. A new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed ...

Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there. Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive ...

Five Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in Ubuntu Server’s needrestart utility have been discovered. These flaws, found by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), affect versions prior to ...

A lot of talk and discussion happens anytime a hardware manufacturer releases a new line of faster, more powerful, or more efficient computers. It’s easy to see better and better specifications and ...

It's the pits for admins: Researchers have discovered a threat actor achieving admin-level access on targeted systems by deploying a new, sophisticated downloader and a couple of privilege escalation ...

Overview On January 14, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the January Security Update patch, which fixed 112 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft ...

Zoom issued an urgent security advisory about a flaw in the Zoom client that could allow a user to gain higher level privileges and access that they are not authorized for. The Zoom web client is what ...

A critical Zoom vulnerability put Windows users at risk of data theft and system compromise. Zoom has patched the flaw. Users should update immediately. Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw ...