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Windows PCs Vulnerable To RID Hijacking; Grants Full System Access To Attackers

A security researcher named Sebastián Castro has uncovered a way of gaining admin rights and boot persistence on Windows PCs that is not only simple to execute but hard to stop as well. RID Hijacking This technique manipulates a parameter of Windows user accounts named Relative Identifier (RID). Account security identifiers (SIDs) that define a user’s permissions group, […]

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9 Out Of 10 Windows Security Flaws Could Be Avoided By Just Removing Admin Rights

Short Bytes: The security firm Avecto has just released its security report on Windows operating system. The report outlines an important result stating that 9-out-of-10 Windows security flaws could be mitigated by simply removing a user’s admin rights. Almost nine-out-of-ten Windows operating system vulnerabilities could have been mitigated by removing the admin rights, according to […]

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