Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

There are various types of kernel drivers; the first that come to mind are device drivers that provide a software interface to hardware devices like plug and play interfaces or filter drivers. These ...

MONTREAL--PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, a security expert said Thursday. "It will probably take a year or so for it to ...

An awkwardly titled "Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit" and a groundbreaking decision at Microsoft – seem to go together: Together with security providers, the company has apparently set a ...

Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, today disclosed a zero-day elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability found in the Windows kernel and actively exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw is ...

One of the issues that have since forever been giving Windows users problems is DirectX Graphics Kernel Latency issues. This glitch comes up mostly after a Windows Update and causes sound issues ...

Windows 11 2025 Update officially shipped on September 30. However, it doesn't show up on most PCs. This likely changes on ...