The Kernel Security Check Failure is a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error that commonly occurs on devices running on Windows 11 and Windows 10. It generally means that ...
Update on June 2, 2025: Microsoft recently released update KB5062170, an out-of-band hotfix for the previously released May update for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2 that’s been wreaking havoc for some ...
North Korean threat actors known as the Lazarus Group exploited a flaw in the Windows AppLocker driver (appid.sys) as a zero-day to gain kernel-level access and turn off security tools, allowing them ...
As mentioned in the recent Windows Insider blog post, the latest preview version of Windows 11 for Insiders on the Dev Channel includes a new feature called “Administrator Protection,” which “aims to ...
Microsoft is looking to create a new platform inside the Windows OS that is tailored for antivirus monitoring. This platform would prevent security products from accessing the kernel, as Microsoft ...
A CrowdStrike executive told a US Congressional hearing on Tuesday that the company’s endpoint detection and response sensor has to continue accessing the Windows kernel, despite criticism by some ...
Why it matters: The kernel space is the core component of a computer operating system, where critical hardware management and device driver code reside in memory. If a kernel-level driver malfunctions ...