Starting with Windows 10, version 1607, Microsoft will enforce its driver signing rule banning kernel mode drivers not signed by the company's Dev Portal.

What is Kernel Mode and User Mode in Windows operating system? We explain and also discuss the difference between them.

Because kernel-mode drivers run with the highest level of privilege on a Windows system, security holes in it can be useful to hackers.

Details have been disclosed on a Windows kernel-mode driver privilege escalation vulnerability that was patched Tuesday by Microsoft.

I have planned to develop a windows security application to prevent malicious code attacks. The solution has user-mode application which will communicate with kernel mode driver for preprocessing ...

If hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in a kernel mode driver for any operating system, they'd essentially end up with control of the entire system. But, according to a story by News.

If Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is off and cannot be turned on in Windows 11/10, then this post is sure to help you resolve the issue.

Microsoft announced on Friday the release of the first public version of the first Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) component, the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF). The release has been posted ...

I'll simplify things a bit here, saying that Windows drivers are applications that run in the kernel mode. Unlike Linux drivers, which are not applications but code that has been vetted by Linux ...

Specifically, they’re updating the Windows kernel in-memory with the Gigabyte driver, according to the research – and the kernel accepts it as a “patch” thanks to the signed certificate.

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.