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 ...

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, ...

Here’s a metaphor for the future of Windows security: Microsoft and the industry are two acrobats on a tightrope with no net. The trick is to meet in the middle, shake hands and maneuver around each ...

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 immediately fired back, with its chief security executive calling McAfee's charges "inflammatory" and "inaccurate." The increasingly testy exchange between Microsoft and third-party security ...

Microsoft has violated its own policy on making exceptions to PatchGuard's kernel restrictions to the benefit of its own product, security researcher says Microsoft has come under fire for quietly ...

More controversy has emerged over PatchGuard, the kernel protection service scheduled to be included in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.<BR><BR>Story.

There are so many great things to look forward to in the new year, including the API spec from Microsoft for endpoint security vendors that want to develop compatible products for the 64-bit Vista ...

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 ...