Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are security issues that allow users to gain more permissions and a higher level of access to systems or applications than their administrators intended. These ...

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 ...

CISA has added an actively exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS) to its list of bugs abused in the wild. Microsoft has fixed a ...

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 7 — A privilege escalation issue in Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS) could be used by an attacker to steal credentials and access other cloud ...

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 ...

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it. Image generated by Google’s Nano Banana A newly ...

A new version of the open-source Metasploit hacking tool -- Metasploit version 3.3 -- was unleashed today and includes faster start-up speed for the console and utilities, as well as hundreds of fresh ...