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Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain ...
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English: A diagram describing privilege escalation. The arrow represents a rootkit gaining access to the kernel, and the little gate represents normal ...
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Privilege escalation is a type of malicious action where the attacker either gains the same level of user privileges on a system as a legitimate user, ...
An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or ...
Where an application transmits or stores sensitive information on insecure devices, such as shared computers, phones and tablets, the application is responsible ...
A number of computer operating systems employ security features to help prevent malicious software from gaining sufficient privileges to compromise the ...
In computer security, arbitrary code execution (ACE) is an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in ...