This web page provides information about administrative privileges on computers and other RIT systems, RIT’s position on admin privileges, examples of when admin privileges are needed or not needed, ...

A researcher has created a remote print server allowing any Windows user with limited privileges to gain complete control over a device simply by installing a print driver. In June, a security ...

Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before the feature was made available earlier this month.… James Forshaw, security researcher at Google's ...

A high-severity Windows Admin Center vulnerability (CVE-2026-26119) could allow privilege escalation in enterprise environments. Here’s what to know and how to mitigate risk.

In this DEMO episode, CyberFOX Director of Technical Sales Bill Morgan demonstrates how CyberFOX’s AutoElevate platform ...

First, you need to terminate the existing explorer.exe process. Open Task Manager Locate explorer.exe process Right-click on it and select End Task. Having done that you have three options to run ...

Revoking administrative rights from machines can mitigate attacks against most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities and in more than half of all vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, a new report ...

Microsoft PrintNightmare, a remote print server, has a hack that now gives any Windows user admin privileges to access a PC. The Microsoft PrintNightmare security vulnerability has been bringing ...

Microsoft-owned source code management platform, GitHub, has rolled out fixes for three vulnerabilities affecting its Enterprise Server product, including a critical one allowing site administrator ...

I need to check if the currently logged-on user (NT, 2000, XP) had admin privileges by checking a registry key. Is this even possible? <BR><BR>Actually, I need to check if the user can install ...

What’s the easiest way to protect your Windows-based PC? Aside from the usual stuff about keeping your security updated, you really shouldn’t be logged in as an administrator if all you’re doing is ...