Your Anti-Cheat Is a Rootkit (And It Loads Before Your OS)
Vanguard boots before Windows does. BattlEye hooks syscalls. A 2024 academic paper confirmed what everyone suspected: kernel anti-cheats are rootkits, just ones you agreed to install.
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Secure Boot's 15-Year-Old Certs Are Expiring and Nobody Is Panicking Enough
The original Secure Boot certificates from 2011 start expiring in June. Microsoft calls it 'one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem.' I call it a firmware Jenga tower.
The Aria of Errors: Five Messages That Stopped the Show
Five famous error messages take a bow — and a knife — in a dramatic review.