The technology giant and third-party security vendors are plotting an ambitious overhaul of how their products interoperate.

Microsoft has released the final version of security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, version 22H2, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. "This release ...

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 ...

Windows 11, the most-used consumer desktop operating system in the world, undoubtedly has its problems. Yet, despite those problems, it's the most refined version of the company's operating system, ...

Kernel level access was discussed at the Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit, a meeting between Microsoft, government officials and cybersecurity companies on Sept. 10. It’s been nearly two ...

Microsoft has been working on integrating Rust into Windows for a while. A senior exec David Weston recently confirmed that Rust-based code will soon be booting inside Windows kernel. Update: Rust is ...

A CrowdStrike executive told a US Congressional hearing on Tuesday that the company’s endpoint detection and response sensor has to continue accessing the Windows kernel, despite criticism by some ...

The switch from C++ to Rust aims to make the kernel more concise, secure, and efficient. Microsoft has already added a significant 36,000 lines of Rust code to the kernel, which has led to the ...

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 ...

WTF?! Microsoft became a victim of its own policies as the company left a dangerous security issue unresolved for months. The North Korean hacker group known as Lazarus took advantage of the situation ...