Details have been disclosed on a Windows kernel-mode driver privilege escalation vulnerability that was patched Tuesday by Microsoft. The vulnerabilities addressed in this month’s Patch Tuesday ...
Microsoft announced last week that starting with Windows 10, version 1607, the operating system will refuse to load any new kernel mode drivers that are not signed by the Windows Hardware Developer ...
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 ...
HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...
If hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in a kernel mode driver for any operating system, they'd essentially end up with control of the entire system. But, according to a story by News.com's ...
The RobbinHood ransomware is using a deprecated Gigabyte driver as the tip of the spear for taking out antivirus products. The operators behind the RobbinHood ransomware are using a vulnerable, legacy ...
When a CPU generates a trap or an exception, and the operating system kernel is not able to catch that particular trap, it gives out an annoying Blue Screen with the ...
Microsoft announced on Friday the release of the first public version of the first Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) component, the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF). The release has been posted on ...