Tuesday’s update to Windows Vista’s PatchGuard, a kernel-protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm’s length, had nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defense, ...

Microsoft has updated its 64-bit kernel protection for Windows Vista, which most of us know as PatchGuard, but which Microsoft calls Kernel Patch Protection. This is Microsoft’s third PatchGuard ...

To do otherwise, is “putting customers at risk,” Microsoft said. Microsoft said if the PatchGuard mechanism requires a patch, it will be delivered much like another software patch. Microsoft says it ...

The application programming interfaces are meant to give security software makers access to information heading into the Vista kernel so that they can create software similar to what they now write ...