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Spurred by several past instances of attackers abusing device drivers to install a kernel rootkit or malicious firmware implants, Eclypsium researchers have decided to probe the security of a wide...

Powerful code signed by Microsoft littered with vulns DEF CON Too many trusted Windows 10 peripheral drivers, signed off by Microsoft and running with powerful kernel-level privileges, are riddled...

Study Identifies 40 Certified Drivers From 20 Vendors That Open the Door to AttacksResearchers from the security firm Eclypsium have identified 40 poorly designed drivers from 20 hardware and BIOS...

Valve said it wouldn't fix an elevation-of-privilege bug that allows attackers to run any program on a target machine with high privileges.

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing...

If you own a device, or a hardware component, manufactured by ASUS, Toshiba, Intel, NVIDIA, Huawei, or other 15 other vendors listed below, you're probably screwed. A team of security researchers...

To install an app in Windows 10, standard level users are prompted for elevated credentials. With a few tweaks, you can change that behavior to deny such requests.

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SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution...

SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was...