Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...

The CrowdStrike incident that affected more than 8.5 million Windows PCs worldwide and forced users to face the “Blue Screen of Death,” made Microsoft sit down and revisit the resilience of its ...

Riot Games has deployed kernel-level drivers in its latest game, Valorant. The drivers are intended for anti-cheat services, but they may make some longtime enthusiasts nervous. Share on Facebook ...

At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS "kernel extensions" (KEXTs) and replace them with a new mechanism called "system extensions." The first step towards this ...

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux.

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

When Apple released a preview version of iOS 10 at its annual developers conference last week, the company slipped in a surprise for security researchers — it left the core of its operating system, ...