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 ...

The first mobile banking Trojan that obtains root privileges on Android devices has been seen in the wild. Developers behind an Android banking Trojan have fortified the malware with an exploit to ...

An error in the workings of Linux kernel versions 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 can give local users access to root privileges. Although example code and root exploits exist for ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major distributions ...

This results in the attacked system opening a shell with root privileges. The issue, tracked as CVE-2016-4484, was discovered by Spanish security researcher Hector Marco, who also found last year that ...

Sudo, a utility found in dozens of Unix-like operating systems, has received a patch for a potentially serious bug that allows unprivileged users to easily obtain unfettered root privileges on ...

A newly discovered 12-year-old vulnerability in a Linux system tool can give attackers root privileges on machines running the operating system. Discovered and described Tuesday by researchers at ...

OK, it looks like you need to employ some extra privilege. In general, you can’t write to a system log file with your user account. Let’s try that again with sudo. The response to the first of the ...