As part of the Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency takes its role in helping to protect the U.S. from hack attacks very seriously indeed. So, when it ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 14 with details of further Microsoft Windows ...

Microsoft is implementing a new Windows kernel trust policy starting April 2026 that will only allow WHCP-certified drivers by default, addressing years-old security vulnerabilities from cross-signed ...

Microsoft has cautioned about a bug fix it released with Patch Tuesday. The fix resolves a kernel issue in Windows but Microsoft has disabled it by default as it can potentially break something. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...