Last week, we took a look at the new Vanguard anti-cheat system being used in Riot’s Valorant and the potential security risks of the kernel-level driver it utilizes. Now, in an effort to allow ...

EA announced its latest salvo in the endless cat-and-mouse battle of PC gaming cheat detection on Tuesday, and the effort prominently features one term sure to raise a red flag for some users: “kernel ...

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 ...

Call of Duty's new anti-cheat system will include a driver with kernel-level system privileges. Activision announced the new system, which it's calling Ricochet, today, and provided some details about ...

A couple of vulnerabilities that a security researcher from China-based Singular Security Lab disclosed at this week's Black Hat Europe 2020 virtual event has highlighted once again why it's dangerous ...

What just happened? Activision courted some controversy when it announced it was bringing kernel-level anti-cheat, which has brought about privacy concerns, to its latest Call of Duty game as well as ...

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Google yesterday rolled out new security measures for protecting Android’s Linux kernel against malicious attacks and other threats. One set of measures is designed to provide memory level protections ...

Why it matters: When it comes to online multiplayer gaming, nobody likes a cheater, not even cheaters. Whether using external software to enhance their performance or just to troll other players, ...

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Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...