ZDNet

Privilege escalation vulnerability patched in Docker Desktop for Windows

On Friday, cybersecurity researchers from Pen Test Partners publicly disclosed the problem, a privilege escalation vulnerability buried in how the software uses pipes. The vulnerability, tracked as ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Here's how to defend Windows against these new privilege escalation attacks

Microsoft has detailed how Windows customers can defend themselves from automated 'Kerberos Relay' attacks that can give an attacker System privileges on a Windows machine. Microsoft has responded to ...
CRN

CISA Confirms Windows Privilege Escalation Flaw Has Seen Exploitation

The U.S. cybersecurity agency also added a recently disclosed Google Pixel flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed ...
TechRepublic

New Splunk Windows Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks

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 ...
Threat Post

High-Severity Windows UAC Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation

Further details of the flaw, which has recently been patched by Microsoft, were disclosed Tuesday by researchers. Researchers disclosed details of a high-severity Microsoft Windows vulnerability that ...