I am helping my friend with his computer and had a question: He has a master account and a sub account. The owner or the master account gave him the computer and left to Japan. He has been using the ...

Has the time finally come for the least-privilege user -- you know, setting your Windows client machines to run without system administrator rights? Leaving admin power on a user's desktop can invite ...

A new Microsoft Defender zero-day called RoguePlanet reportedly grants SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices.

Security researchers have released NoFilter, a tool that abuses the Windows Filtering Platform to elevate a user's privileges to increases privileges to SYSTEM, the highest permission level on Windows ...

McAfee has patched two high-severity bugs in its Agent component, one of which can allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges. McAfee has patched two high-severity ...

McAfee Enterprise (now rebranded as Trellix) has patched a security vulnerability discovered in the company's McAfee Agent software for Windows enabling attackers to escalate privileges and execute ...