In a confusing mess, a recent Microsoft Defender update rolled out a new security feature called 'Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection,' while removing the LSA protection feature.

Microsoft announced today a new security feature for the Windows operating system. Named "Hardware-enforced Stack Protection," this feature allows applications to use the local CPU hardware to protect ...

Google Chrome now hinders attackers' efforts to exploit security bugs on systems with Intel 11th Gen or AMD Zen 3 CPUs, running Windows 10 2004 or later. This is possible after the adoption of Intel's ...

Google has revealed Chrome 90 has adopted a new Windows 10 security feature called "Hardware-enforced Stack Protection" to protect the memory stack from attackers. Hardware-enforced Stack Protection, ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a hefty PDF detailing Windows 11's new security-focused features, with a heavy emphasis on supporting zero trust. For a couple of years now, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...

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 ...

Towards the end of March, Microsoft confirmed a Windows 11 issue where the Windows security app would incorrectly display "Local Security Authority protection is off", even when the feature was ...

Windows 11 users are in some cases seeing a security error caused by an update to Microsoft’s built-in antivirus for the OS, and it seems to be causing havoc with ...