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New Xbox security cracked by Linux fans
News After using a complicated trick to analyse the contents of the MCPX ROM, and decoding the encrypted kernel, the hackers discovered that the new hardware uses a complex encryption method to ensure the validity of the Flash memory contents before...
[October 14, 2002, 16:26]
Ethernet security leak discovered
News In various installations, the "fill" information can come from dynamic kernel memory, from static system memory dedicated to the device driver, or from RAM on the network interface card itself. The researchers suggest that the easiest way to...
[January 27, 2003, 12:03]
Vista needs safety in numbers
Leader Symantec and McAfee say they're being locked out of providing more security, because Microsoft is denying access to important parts of Vista's architecture, such as the kernel. Modifying the kernel in unapproved and undocumented ways can be very...
[October 4, 2006, 16:50]
Windows Vista and the coming criminal diaspora review
Reviews As you can imagine, any comment suggesting that third-party antivirus software might be unnecessary with Windows Vista prompted considerable noise from the antivirus community, with some security vendors already incensed by Windows Vista's...
[December 4, 2006, 9:48]
News Schmooze: Bert really is evil
News Linux saw what must be its fastest kernel update this week after a final version posted on Tuesday, version 2.4.11, suddenly vanished two days later to be replaced by 2.4.12. The explanation was a "serious" bug that had made its way into the...
[October 12, 2001, 15:26]
Securely setting up a Linux PC
News The Mandriva package called Shorewall along with a component of the Linux kernel called Netfilter provides a software firewall. Tune kernel networking security options The Linux kernel itself can provide some additional networking security.
[December 14, 2005, 11:40]
Linux: New graphics, old problem
Talkback And the kernel hackers can't be expected to help when you've got a black-box driver doing who-knows-what to system memory. Proprietary kernel modules are all very well when they work, but you are chained to the vendor's bugfix schedule when they...
[April 19, 2006, 13:38]
Kaspersky predicts Vista security holes
News Hackers could try to install malware directly to the kernel using this method as drivers run in kernel space, and the signed driver requirement can be programatically disabled fairly simply. According to Gostev, one of the first pieces of the...
[December 11, 2006, 13:13]
Ubuntu users get patch for Linux kernel flaw
News Canonical is the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users' machines. It was discovered that there were multiple NULL...
[August 26, 2008, 8:00]
Tiny Personal Firewall
Downloads Malicious packet content is frequently used by hackers exploiting vulnerabilities of otherwise trusted applications, such as Windows kernel components, IIS and others. Tiny Personal Firewall integrates several protection layers for the ultimate...
[May 18, 2005, 5:57]
Microsoft coughs up Vista APIs
News But they complained that the kernel shield, called PatchGuard and intended to stop hackers in 64-bit versions of Vista, blocks security products too. Microsoft has released a first draft of programming interfaces meant to help security firms create...
[December 21, 2006, 8:05]
Microsoft to meet security companies over Vista row
News In 64-bit versions of Vista, the kernel protection not only locked out hackers but also prevented some security software from running, security companies have said. In response to antitrust concerns from the European Commission, Microsoft last week...
[October 19, 2006, 8:55]
Linux hackers miss IPO boat
News Word of the rejections spread quickly among the close-knit community of Linux "kernel hackers". It was also a way of staying in the good graces of the Linux hackers, on whose efforts Red Hat depends. When thousands of computer buffs received an...
[August 19, 1999, 12:05]
Cox shows value in open discussions
Leader But no, the comments actually come from one Alan Cox, sometime Linux kernel maintainer and still -- we believe -- a close friend of Torvalds. This is a bad idea as some people read all the kernel patches to find the security holes.
[March 2, 2005, 13:00]
Symantec and Microsoft co-operate on security
News The security vendors claimed that a kernel shield developed by Microsoft, called "PatchGuard" and intended to stop hackers attacking 64-bit versions of Vista, blocked their security products too. Last year, security companies, including Symantec...
[October 23, 2007, 16:10]
Don't rush to 64-bit Vista, says analyst
News But they complained that the kernel shield called PatchGuard in 64-bit versions of Vista, which is intended to stop hackers, blocks security products, too.bit Windows is expected to eventually supplant 32-bit versions.
[October 23, 2006, 10:05]
The ups and downs of life with Linus
News Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox has given an insight into the experience of working with Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux who maintains its development kernel. During a talk last weekend at the Free and Open source Software Developers European...
[March 1, 2005, 17:15]
McAfee and Microsoft tangle over Vista security
News The decision to build a wall around the kernel with the assumption it can't be breached is ridiculous. Kernel Patch Protection is not new to Vista; the technology has been shipping for more than three years and is currently available on XP 2003 and...
[October 3, 2006, 14:20]
Is Linux becoming too commercial?
News Alan Cox, a long-standing Linux kernel developer based in the UK, agrees that, although Linux developers work in harmony with big business for the moment, certain fundamental differences could cause problems in the near future.
[August 13, 1999, 9:15]
ActiveX bug resurfaces
News The latest opening allows the kernel of Windows 98 or Windows NT computers to be permanently deleted from an applet embedded in a Web page. Although Microsoft has already released a fix for the problem which makes it possible for a user to...
[September 3, 1999, 12:32]
