Starting with Windows 10, version 1607, Microsoft will enforce its driver signing rule banning kernel mode drivers not signed by the company's Dev Portal.

Specifically, they’re updating the Windows kernel in-memory with the Gigabyte driver, according to the research – and the kernel accepts it as a “patch” thanks to the signed certificate.

Details have been disclosed on a Windows kernel-mode driver privilege escalation vulnerability that was patched Tuesday by Microsoft.

Researchers find security flaws in 40 kernel drivers from 20 vendors Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.

I'll simplify things a bit here, saying that Windows drivers are applications that run in the kernel mode. Unlike Linux drivers, which are not applications but code that has been vetted by Linux ...

We also understand other drivers can be comprised in this fashion as well. Additionally, if a Kernel-mode driver experiences a crash, then the entire Windows 11/10 operating system will crash.

HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more.

Microsoft's pitch to Windows admins: buy a Secured-core PC so you don't need to configure extra security settings.