It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding ...

Microsoft has outlined why its new breed of Secured-core PCs, such as the Surface Pro X, are equipped to fight off ransomware and other malware that attack vulnerable hardware drivers to compromise a ...

Attackers can downgrade Windows kernel components to bypass security features such as Driver Signature Enforcement and deploy rootkits on fully patched systems. This is possible by taking control of ...

In a statement responding to CRN’s interview with SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten, CrowdStrike says that its July 19 update did not bypass Microsoft’s ‘clear kernel review process.’ CrowdStrike said ...

Why it matters: The kernel space is the core component of a computer operating system, where critical hardware management and device driver code reside in memory. If a kernel-level driver malfunctions ...