A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as ...

Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

When I first started using Linux in 1997, there was one inevitability: at some point, you would have to either log in as root or switch to the root account. I did it. A lot. Also: Do you need ...

Is the default username on any of your internet-exposed remote services root, admin, user or test? If so, it's already being targeted by more than half of the automated, remote hack attacks seen in ...

A vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, tracked as CVE-2026-90894 and dubbed "ParaShells," can give any local user on a Mac root privileges.

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 ...

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 ...