A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as ...

When I first started using Linux in 1997, there was one inevitability: at some point, you would have to either log in as root or switch to the root account. I did it. A lot. Also: Do you need ...

Is the default username on any of your internet-exposed remote services root, admin, user or test? If so, it's already being targeted by more than half of the automated, remote hack attacks seen in ...

Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

Two vulnerabilities in OnePlus software could allow an installed malicious application to escalate its privileges and gain ...

AWS has introduced a new capability for AWS Organizations members, allowing administrators to centrally manage and restrict root-user access across multiple AWS accounts. This update enhances security ...

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. Sudo is a Unix program ...

Our smartphones and tablets today have become powerful computers, almost matching the cheapest "netbook" grade laptops. We feel they can almost do anything and everything. In theory, they can. In ...