Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

Microsoft is under no obligation to notify you or ask your permission before placing a new trusted root certificate on your Windows PC. That said, just last year Microsoft was caught in the ...

Microsoft has discovered vulnerabilities in system components commonly used on Linux desktops that could allow an attacker to elevate privileges to root and install malware. Gaining root privileges on ...

WinPho7 retail units have only been out for a few days, but a proper jailbreak isn’t that far off now that some devs gained root access to the system. It’s not like anyone really thought Windows Phone ...

Apple has recently addressed a vulnerability that lets attackers with root privileges bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) to install "undeletable" malware and access the victim's private data by ...

A recently disclosed medium-severity bug was chained with critical, older bugs to gain root-level access to PAN firewall systems. A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto ...

A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two older vulnerabilities, allows attackers to gain root access to affected systems.… This story starts ...