Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...

Consider any school with no teacher in it. How will the situations be in such schools? As you can imagine the consequences with not much effort, the similar output will be found if an Operating system ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

A novel Linux Kernel cross-cache attack named SLUBStick has a 99% success in converting a limited heap vulnerability into an arbitrary memory read-and-write capability, letting the researchers elevate ...

Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...

A recent interview with Con Kolivas, former Linux kernel hacker, makes for an interesting read. Mr. Kolivas became well known for some of his performance-related patches, and oddly enough, he did all ...

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 ...

Microsoft is testing a new diagnostic tool in Windows 11 that lets you create live kernel memory dumps without disrupting the operation of Windows. A live kernel dump is a snapshot of the kernel's ...