Bypassing Windows Administrator Protection
A headline feature introduced in the latest release of Windows 11, 25H2 is Administrator Protection. The goal of this feature is to replace User Account Control (UAC) with a more robust and importantly, securable system to allow a local user to access administrator privileges only when necessary. This blog post will give a brief overview of the new feature, how it works and how it’s different from UAC. I’ll then describe some of the security research I undertook while it was in the insider previ
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.