Archive for the 'Kernel Patch Protection' Category
Microsoft stands firm on PatchGuard
Saturday, October 14th, 2006Microsoft is still talking with partners who are complaining about how the developer has set up Windows Vista’s security, but it won’t budge from its decision to lock down access to the kernel, a company security manager said Thursday.
"Vista is not completed yet, and we’re sitting down with everyone," said Stephen Toulouse, senior product manager [...]
Hackers Will Break Vista PatchGuard
Saturday, October 14th, 2006A computer security expert is predicting that hackers will crack the controversial PatchGuard kernel anti-tampering technology coming in Windows Vista within one year of its release.
Alexander Czarnowski, chief executive of Avet, in Warsaw, Poland, said he believes it’s inevitable that the technology will be broken once the final version of Windows Vista is released to [...]
Users differ over benefits of Microsoft Patch Guard
Sunday, October 8th, 2006IT managers have divided views of a simmering dispute between two major security vendors and Microsoft Corp. over the latter’s Patch Guard technology, which prevents access to the 64-bit Windows kernel.
Security software vendors Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. say the Patch Guard technology prevents the use of certain features in third-party tools that would make [...]
Is Vista kernel patch protection effective?
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Last week Microsoft’s vice-president of security technology was gadding round Europe briefing people on new capabilities in the forthcoming [tag]Windows Vista[/tag]. We didn’t have much time so our discussion focused on the ideas behind [tag]Kernel Patch Protection[/tag] (KPP).
In case you haven’t come across it yet, KPP is a feature of the 64bit versions of Vista [...]
An Introduction to Kernel Patch Protection
Sunday, August 13th, 2006There have been a lot of questions recently about a Windows technology called Kernel Patch Protection (sometimes referred to as PatchGuard) so I wanted to provide some context about the feature to help answer them. OS kernel design is a very specialized area of computer science that rarely receives a lot of public attention, [...]
