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, ...

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 ...

A security researcher published proof-of-concept code last month for an exploit that can bypass the Microsoft Kernel Patch Protection (KPP) security feature, more commonly known as PatchGuard. Named ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. scheduled a meeting today with security vendors to discuss its plans to release application programming interfaces (API) that will allow third-party products to work around a kernel ...

This Halloween, many bloggers are painting Microsoft as the boogeyman because of the PatchGuard feature it's putting in Windows Vista. But the screaming isn't all about whether the feature will allow ...

Microsoft quietly beefed up a key defensive feature of 64-bit Windows Vista Tuesday to better protect the operating system against hacks that have plagued it for weeks. The update to Vista’s Kernel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...