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 ...
A critical security vulnerability affecting the JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows agent has been identified, exposing managed endpoints to local privilege escalation and denial-of-service (DoS) ...
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 ...
Nvidia has issued urgent security updates for its GPU display drivers after identifying multiple high-severity flaws that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and gain elevated privileges ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...