Up until a few days back, Paytm, the popular payments player in the country, would ask for root permission on an Android smartphone. Soon a report followed that informed that Paytm has decided to stop ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

A pair of newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Fragnesia, allow a local attacker to corrupt the ...

AWS has introduced a new capability for AWS Organizations members, allowing administrators to centrally manage and restrict root-user access across multiple AWS accounts. This update enhances security ...

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) ...

Hackers have released a new jailbreak that any user can employ to gain root access on any iPhone, regardless of the hardware as long as it runs iOS 11 or later. Dubbed unc0ver, the exploit works only ...

A privilege escalation vulnerability of important severity in the Apache HTTP server allowing users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems was fixed in Apache httpd ...

Linux users have been bitten by yet another vulnerability that gives containers and untrusted users the ability to gain root access, marking the second time in as many weeks that a severe threat has ...

Rooting is the quintessential need of any discerning Android user, as it offers SuperUser (SU) privileges with the ability to install the latest third-party custom ROMs, root apps and newest system ...

This week, the Apache Software Foundation has patched a severe vulnerability in the Apache (httpd) web server project that could --under certain circumstances-- allow rogue server scripts to execute ...