Tag Archives: privilege escalation

OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development community by storm. A recently fixed vulnerability provides an object lesson for why. OpenClaw, which was introduced in November and now boasts 347,000 stars on Github, by design takes… Read More »

Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse

reader comments 106 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the location where the software will be installed. Clicking that link opens a File… Read More »