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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...