Security News

Seagate drives at risk of data theft over hidden 'root' account (ZDNet)
2015-09-07 13:50

Seagate wireless hard-drives provides undocumented Telnet services accessible by using the default credentials of 'root' as username and the default password. (Reddit)
2015-09-06 21:53

Researcher releases exploit for OS X 0-day that gives root access (Help Net Security)
2015-08-18 10:27

Italian security researcher Luca Todesco has published PoC exploit code for a newly discovered zero-day privilege escalation flaw affecting OS X Yosemite (v10.10) and Mavericks (v10.9). Symantec e...

Hackers actively exploiting OS X zero-day to root machines, deliver adware (Help Net Security)
2015-08-04 10:15

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the latest version of Apple's OS. The bug's existence has been publicly revealed last month by Security resear...

Apple OS X zero-day flaw hands over root access without system passwords (ZDNet)
2015-08-04 07:18

Bug in OS X Yosemite allows attackers to gain root access (Help Net Security)
2015-07-23 12:42

Security researcher Stefan Esser has revealed the existence of a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), and has provided a working proof of concept local exploit that inst...

Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges (ArsTechnica)
2015-07-22 19:12

Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-29 01:14

CVE-2015-1328: incorrect permission checks in overlayfs, ubuntu local root (Reddit)
2015-06-16 06:11

Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-05 00:17