Tag Archive for: privilege

Android Zero-Day Bug Opens Door to Privilege Escalation Attack, Researchers Warn – Threatpost

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Android Zero-Day Bug Opens Door to Privilege Escalation Attack, Researchers Warn  Threatpost

The zero-day vulnerability could enable privilege escalation, and is not part of Google’s Android September security update.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day exploit and privilege escalation vulnerability

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  1. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day exploit and privilege escalation vulnerability  TechSpot

  2. Zero-Day Attack Exploits Windows via Malicious Word Doc  BankInfoSecurity.com
  3. Microsoft patches Internet Explorer zero-day ‘Double Kill’  TechTarget
  4. Adobe Security Bulletin – Adobe Support  Adobe Support

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BeyondTrust: privilege, vulnerability management available through Azure

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Users of Azure cloud services have a new option for stopping the misuse of privileges as well as managing vulnerabilities through an alliance with BeyondTrust.

Azure customers who buy BeyondTrust licenses can host PowerBroker, the company’s privileged access management (PAM) and its vulnerability management (VM) platform, Retina, in their Azure cloud instances.

They can host BeyondSaaS perimeter vulnerability scanning in Azure as well. Both are available via the Azure Marketplace.

These new services give BeyondTrust customers a third option for how they deploy PAM and VM. Before they could extend a local instance of BeyondTrust’s security to the Azure cloud via software connectors or deploy it within the cloud using software agents deployed on virtual machines there.

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Network World Tim Greene