Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines 129
L3sPau1 writes "A zero-day exploit has been found in the Nvidia Display Driver Service on Windows machines. An attacker with local access can use the exploit to gain root privileges on a Windows machine. Windows domains with relaxed firewall rules or file sharing enabled can also pull off the exploit, which was posted to Pastebin by researcher Peter Winter-Smith."
Re:#WindowsRage (Score:4, Funny)
MS-DOS.
You kind of need "privileges" in order to have privilege escalation.
Re:severs are starting to use GPS for CPU tasks (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently, GPS offers more than location and time services. Unfortunately, I think GPS satellites are too high up to be considered "in the cloud." Maybe it's time for a new catchy phrase for them? Cloud 2.0? Or, better yet, Void. "I do all of my computing in the Void" has a nice ring to it.
It never dawned on me until just now, but with all of the added computing required of the GPS satellites, no wonder Apple Maps is having so many problems!