Cheat deterrents like kernel drivers are raising legitimate privacy concerns. But it's not all bad news.

All code that runs in kernel mode shares a single virtual address space. This means that a kernel-mode driver is not isolated from other drivers and the operating system itself.

Another day, another vulnerability. Discovered by [Kevin Backhouse], CVE-2018-4407 is a particularly serious problem because it is present all throughout Apple’s product line, from the Macboo… ...

The kernel development process is painstakingly conservative, so the initial introduction of Rust is going to be done in the least obtrusive way possible — driver code.

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

AI tools can help Linux maintainers, but they can also cause chaos. Here's what needs to be addressed - fast - before things get out of control.

At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman recaps the current state and future challenges of kernel security, including the specter of government regulation and the essential ...

Now, it seems, Red Hat is releasing the source code for the kernel in one big tarball file, with all of the patches applied already.

In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called ...

Live patching is only for critical security problems. Linux kernel patches can fix vulnerabilities if the problem can be isolated to small and specific portions of kernel code. However, if the problem ...

Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call 40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how.