Tuesday’s update to Windows Vista’s PatchGuard, a kernel-protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm’s length, had nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defense, ...

The application programming interfaces are meant to give security software makers access to information heading into the Vista kernel so that they can create software similar to what they now write ...

“Microsoft strongly recommends that software vendors not attempt to bypass Kernal Patch Protection,” the spokesman stated. “This has the potential for de-stabilizing and crashing customer systems, ...

Huawei denied on Monday having any official involvement in an insecure patch submitted to the Linux kernel project over the weekend; patch that introduced a "trivially exploitable" vulnerability. The ...

Microsoft has updated its 64-bit kernel protection for Windows Vista, which most of us know as PatchGuard, but which Microsoft calls Kernel Patch Protection. This is Microsoft’s third PatchGuard ...

Microsoft has released a first draft of programming interfaces meant to help security firms create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista. The new application programming ...