Hackers commonly bypass Microsoft Windows kernel protections to enable cheating in competitive online games, new research shows. Academics at the University of Birmingham performed a technical ...

So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 - which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties.

All is changing with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Instead of emulating the Linux kernel APIs on the NT kernel, WSL 2 is going to run a full Linux kernel in a lightweight virtual machine.

Proof-of-concept code was published detailing a zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability while a Windows Trojan is currently circulating ransomware in active attacks on the Web.