A growing number of manufacturers are locking perfectly good hardware behind arbitrary software restrictions. While this ought to be a bigger controversy, people seem to keep paying for things like ...

On many of the most popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, it's possible to log into your computer as a "root" user.

Two different exploits for an unpatched Parallels Desktop privilege elevation vulnerability have been publicly disclosed, allowing users to gain root access on impacted Mac devices. Parallels Desktop ...

With so many cheap network-connected devices out there being Linux-powered, it’s very tempting to try and hack into them, usually via a serial interface. This was the goal of [Andrzej Szombierski] ...

A vulnerability in KernelSU version 0.5.7 that could allow attackers to impersonate its manager application and gain root access has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. According to Zimperium ...

The author of a popular software-defined radio (SDR) project has removed a "backdoor" from radio devices that granted root-level access. The backdoor had been, according to the author, present in all ...

Getting root access inside one of Starlink's dishes requires a few things that are hard to come by: a deep understanding of board circuitry, eMMC dumping hardware and skills, bootloader software ...

Cisco has released patches for a trio of bugs that hit its Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software, and could result in escaping from virtual machines, running commands as root, and leaking system data ...