Last Friday, the world experienced the biggest global outage of key Windows PC infrastructure in history — this issue, caused by a botched CrowdStrike update to its kernel-level Falcon Sensor ...

This will enable them to build their IT security solutions to run outside the Windows kernel. Software such as antivirus and endpoint protection will then be in user mode, just like normal apps.

Microsoft is making changes to Windows to get antivirus apps out of the kernel. A private preview is being released to security vendors in July.

Games use kernel mode software more than you'd think; Apex Legends, Fortnite, Paladins, Rainbow Six: Siege, Valorant, H1Z1, and Day-Z to name a few.The argument is that hacking and cheating tools ...

Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. say that a Microsoft Corp. technology called Patch Guard — which blocks access to the 64-bit Vista kernel — will make it harder for third-party security vendors ...

At the time, Riot noted that plenty of other kernel-level anti-cheat software already existed—although not to the extent of Riot's Vanguard software, which begins when Windows boots up.

FIFA 23 and other EA titles will come with controversial "kernel-mode" anti-cheat software Since some cheats operate in Ring 0, EA says it has to have kernel access, too ...

At least one hacker is using anti-cheat software included in the tremendously popular free-to-play MMOPRG Genshin Impact to help mass distribute ransomware. The file is named 'mhyprot2.sys' ...