All of the vulnerabilities arise from improper input validations. A passel of privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in MacPaw’s CleanMyMac X software would allow a local attacker to gain root access to ...

Geohot’s latest Android rooting tool relies on a privilege root access, escalation vulnerability affecting the majority of commercial Android builds. A recently disclosed vulnerability in version 3.14 ...

Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had asked them to check for users who have rooted their phone before they were granted access to make UPI ...

Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...

Several MacFixIt readers have reported problems disabling root user access using NetInfo Manager in Mac OS X 10.3.x. Though NetInfo indicates that Root access is being disabled, but users are still ...

If you're using Apple's latest macOS High Sierra, you'll want to be wary of giving people access to your computer. Initially tweeted by developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, there's a super-easy exploit that ...

Is there a way to give multiple accounts total or root access to a machine without giving them the root password. Kind of like making the user an ...

A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of logged in users and reinforces the dangers of granting administrative privileges to applications ...

Welcome to our tutorial article explaining how to deal with the ‘root access flaw’ discovered in macOS High Sierra. The latest development is that Apple’s fix for the problem disappears (temporarily) ...

This project provides an API for performing specific, tightly‑scoped privileged root tasks (using short‑term sts:AssumeRoot sessions) and for recovering access to locked Amazon S3 buckets or Amazon ...