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 ...

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 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 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 today released draft application programming interfaces designed to give independent security vendors a way to get around a kernel patch protection technology in the 64-bit version of ...

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 ...

Microsoft has come under fire for quietly releasing a fix to its PatchGuard kernel-protection software in order to improve the performance of its Virtual Server 2005 product. PatchGuard is a ...

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 ...