EA announced its latest salvo in the endless cat-and-mouse battle of PC gaming cheat detection on Tuesday, and the effort prominently features one term sure to raise a red flag for some users: "kernel ...

In context: Nothing can ruin a multiplayer game faster than rampant cheating, so it's no surprise that developers go to great lengths to devise ways to mitigate it. One controversial method is to ...

Gaming Mice Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again Security Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity ...

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Valve has announced that it is now mandatory for game developers to explicitly declare whether their game(s) use any anti-cheat technology in kernel mode, in a new Steamworks Developer post. Steam ...

Following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a defective CrowdStrike update, Microsoft is working on a way to allow security products to ‘run in user mode just as apps do,’ Microsoft’s David ...

Microsoft blocked code signing certificates predominantly used by Chinese hackers and developers to sign and load malicious kernel mode drivers on breached systems by exploiting a Windows policy ...

Going forward, when you submit a new game to Steam, if your game installs a client side, kernel mode anti-cheat, you will need to fill out this new field. We will be going through old games and ...

Something to look forward to: Anti-cheat tools used by game studios have repeatedly sparked controversy among players. Now, Valve is requiring studios to be transparent, clearly stating when and how ...

… wouldn’t it be easier to query the OS to see if certain executables are doing hooking, and if they are, close the game? Now that’s need Microsoft buy in to help here and there might be some issues, ...