Update 1/26 Our sources at Microsoft provided us the following info: Microsoft is aware of a recent research blog post discussing a bug that could appear to lead to possible Read more
Update 1/26 Our sources at Microsoft provided us the following info: Microsoft is aware of a recent research blog post discussing a bug that could appear to lead to possible Read more
tl;dr The Windows V2004 WDK/EWDK had a serious security vulnerability. It has been updated to mitigate that vulnerability, and you should update all of your machines that have the WDK/EWDK Read more
My article in the latest issue of The NT Insider on static analysis tools for driver developers included the following off-hand comment: We’re not going to discuss SDV in this Read more
Microsoft has announced that it is ending the ability to cross-sign drivers, effective 1 July 2021. This will effectively make it impossible to release new or updated drivers for Windows Read more
Update: Late in December 2020 Microsoft issued an update to the WDK/EWDK that includes mitigations for this security issue. See our blog post describing these updates. tl;dr Last week (week Read more
TL;DR: Shortcut to a PDF version of the NTSTATUS to Win32 ERROR code mapping table: PDF version of The Table here Some time ago, for reasons known only to our Read more
Update 1 April 2020: VS 2019 V16.5.2 has been released, and it does appear to fix both problems reported in this post. TL;DR DO NOT update VS 2019 beyond 16.4.0, Read more
One of the most common requests that we’ve received over the years about our seminars has been to allow people to attend remotely, online, via the Internet. But we waited, Read more
It was back in 2015 that I wrote my first set of blog posts on Windows driver signing. Then I wrote some more in 2016. And then in 2017 I Read more
When I was first named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, back in the early 2000’s, I was very proud. Really, I was. There was a cohort of smart, generous, and Read more
FESF for Linux is Now Shipping!
OSR's Framework for building transparent per-file encryption solutions now supports Linux!
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