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The certificates have expired, but Windows will still load the corrupted drivers.

Most users can no longer see which folders are excluded from Defenders scans

Microsoft has made changes to Windows Defender's Exclusions as the section is no longer visible to users who don't have administrator rights, whereas previously, it was visible to everyone.

A 12-year-old vulnerability has been discovered in the Polkit utility that could allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access to targeted Linux.

A vulnerability in Polkits pkexec component identified as CVE-2021-4034 (PwnKit) is present in the default configuration of all major Linux distributions and can be exploited to gain full root privileges on the system, researchers warn today.

Qualys security researchers warn of an easily exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec.

Users advised to urgently patch multiple flaws.

A well-known security researcher has slammed Microsoft for its "astonishingly bad" security advisories, pointing to the wording in a TCP/IP re...

Microsoft has released today a new Print spooler service security vulnerability advisory under the ID CVE-2021-36958. As a temporary solution, the firm has asked users to disable the process.

By Juha Saarinen on Jul 8, 2021 10:19AM Remote code execution and privilege escalation still possible. Testing done by security researchers appears to bear out suspicions that Microsofts urgent out-of-band patch released yesterday does not fully address the critical and exploited PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability. United States Computer Emergency Response Team vulnerability analyst Will Dormann raised doubts that Microsofts patch was sufficient to p...