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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A privilege escalation vulnerability of important severity in the Apache HTTP server allowing users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems was fixed in Apache httpd ...

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 ...

Geoffrey Mattson is the CEO of Xage Security, delivering zero-trust access and protection that’s easy to deploy, manage and use. In our increasingly digital world, companies managing information ...

Fortra has announced what it dubs a Microsoft security hole. There is no dispute that the privilege escalation issue exists, but there is much argument over whether it’s a flaw. Security vendor Fortra ...