Summer of SAM – incorrect permissions on Windows 10/11 hives, (Tue, Jul 20th)

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If you opened Twitter today you were probably flooded with news about the latest security issue with Windows. For those that have ISC as their home page (yay!) the issue is the following: apparently starting with Windows 10 1809 (hey, that&#x27s a version from 2018) Microsoft messed up permissions on the SAM and SYSTEM hives which became readable for any user on the system.

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