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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has shared guidance to help admins defend their Windows enterprise environments against KrbRelayUp attacks that enable attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on Windows systems with default ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...