The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: privilege escalation

OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnera...

Attention Linux Users! A new vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo —one of the most important, powerful, and commonly used utilities ...

If you own a device, or a hardware component, manufactured by ASUS, Toshiba, Intel, NVIDIA, Huawei, or other 15 other vendors listed below, ...

An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to byp...

An anonymous hacker with an online alias "SandboxEscaper" today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a new zero-day...

Mark J Cox, one of the founding members of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, today posted a tweet warning users ab...

Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a m...

Apple has finally released iOS 12.1.4 software update to patch the terrible Group FaceTime privacy bug that could have allowed an Apple ...

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating...

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than...

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributi...

A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vul...

Security researchers have published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux ker...

A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in 4G-based wireless 4GEE Mini modem sold by mobile operator EE that could allow an att...

A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft's Windows op...

Adobe has released August 2018 security patch updates for a total of 11 vulnerabilities in its products, two of which are rated as critica...

A security researcher on New Year's eve made public the details of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple's macOS operating...

Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execut...

A bug in Linux kernel that was discovered two years ago, but was not considered a security threat at that time, has now been recognised a...

As part of this month's Patch Tuesday , Microsoft has released security patches for a serious privilege escalation vulnerability whic...