It’s a key part of the Windows design philosophy to keep code out of the kernel. By hosting the eBPF JIT in a driver, if it crashes, Windows will carry on running, and the driver can be reloaded ...

“KDP is intended to protect drivers and software running in the Windows kernel (i.e., the OS code itself) against data-driven attacks,” Andrea Allievi, a senior engineer with Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft announced that the latest Windows 11 build shipping to Insiders in the Canary channel comes with additional Windows Kernel components rewritten in the memory safety-focused Rust ...