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 ...

The operating system mode. Processors operate either in kernel mode or "user mode." Also called "supervisor mode," the kernel mode enables the OS (kernel) to execute "privileged instructions," which ...

At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS "kernel extensions" (KEXTs) and replace them with a new mechanism called "system extensions." The first step towards this ...

A new Microsoft announcement suggests it has found a way to deliver kernel-level visibility and capabilities to apps running in user mode. Experts conclude a ban on kernel access for cybersecurity ...

In context: Nothing can ruin a multiplayer game faster than rampant cheating, so it's no surprise that developers go to great lengths to devise ways to mitigate it. One controversial method is to ...