A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

Microsoft developer Long Zheng, author of the blog istartedsomething, on Friday posted a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability in the Windows 7 beta, and said it stemmed from Microsoft's efforts to ...

Microsoft is denying that there is a security hole in the https://www.pcworld.com/video/id,904-page,1-bid,0/video.html?tk=rel_newsof Windows 7 after a blogger ...

Around 70 percent of Windows Vista on home systems are infected with malware, according to PC Tools, which blames Vista's UAC security feature for the high count — but Microsoft says it's user ...

Microsoft is investigating reports of an unpatched vulnerability in the Windows kernel that could be used by attackers to sidestep an important operating system security measure. One security firm ...

A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely.

Fuggeddaboud Microsoft’s crazy User Account Control. One security researcher has discovered that just by disabling admin rights, 92% of Microsoft vulnerabilities are cured, or at least the damage a ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeyondTrust Corporation, the first provider of Least Privilege Management solutions, today announced BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5, the first product to ...

A well-known adware program is preventing users from installing antivirus products by leveraging a Windows feature that was designed for security. The program, known as Vonteera, abuses the digital ...

Microsoft Corp.’s plans to change a controversial security feature in Windows 7 are only cosmetic, nothing more than “lipstick on UAC,” a developer of enterprise rights management tools said today.

The TrickBot Trojan has received an update that adds a UAC bypass targeting the Windows 10 operating system so that it infects users without displaying any visible prompts. A UAC bypass allows ...

A blogger claims to have found a vulnerability in Window 7's UAC, but Microsoft says the feature cannot be exploited unless there is already malicious code running on the machine Microsoft is denying ...