Security News > 2018 > August > Hacker Discloses Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability (With PoC)

2018-08-28 10:33
A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft's Windows operating system that could help a local user or malicious program obtain system privileges on the targeted machine. And guess what? The zero-day flaw has been confirmed working on a "fully-patched 64-bit Windows 10 system." The vulnerability is a privilege
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