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Hotpatching on Windows

Mehmet_Iyigun on Nov 19 2021 07:05 PM
Hotpatching is an impact-less update technology which has been keeping the Azure fleet up-to-date for years with zero im...
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Getting to Know ARM64EC: #Defines and Intrinsic Functions

Mehmet_Iyigun on Nov 18 2021 12:55 AM
In this post, we start describing ARM64EC, a new ABI that makes it easy to build native apps for Windows on ARM even if ...
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Developer Guidance for Hardware-enforced Stack Protection

Jin_Lin on Feb 24 2021 12:47 PM
Windows 10 implementation details of Hardware-enforced Stack Protection, which takes advantage of the latest chipset sec...
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Introducing Kernel Data Protection, a new security technology for preventing data corruption

Mehmet_Iyigun on Jul 08 2020 10:45 AM
Kernel Data Protection (KDP) is a new technology that prevents data corruption attacks by protecting parts of the Window...
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Securely donate CPU time with Windows Sandbox

Hari Pulapaka on Apr 06 2020 12:11 PM
Run Folding@Home in Windows Sandbox 
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Understanding Hardware-enforced Stack Protection

Hari Pulapaka on Mar 24 2020 08:54 AM
ROP (Return Oriented Programming) based control flow attacks have become a common form of attack. In this post, we will ...
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DTrace on Windows – 20H1 updates

Hari Pulapaka on Jan 27 2020 11:51 AM
DTrace on Windows updates for 20H1 - now without local KD attach requirement.
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DTrace on Windows

Hari Pulapaka on Mar 11 2019 10:04 AM
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10 
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Windows Sandbox - Config Files

Hari Pulapaka on Feb 21 2019 12:37 PM
Windows Sandbox now supports minimal scripting 
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Windows Sandbox

Hari Pulapaka on Dec 18 2018 04:18 PM
Windows Sandbox is a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation. Learn mo...
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Mitigating Spectre variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows

Mehmet_Iyigun on Dec 05 2018 04:37 PM
Read about how the Windows Kernel team adapted retpoline for Windows to deliver a high-performance mitigation for Spectr...
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One Windows Kernel

Hari Pulapaka on Oct 17 2018 12:39 PM
In this blog post, I will talk about the evolution of the core pieces of the Windows kernel that allows it to transparen...

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jmaal
in Windows Sandbox on Apr 27 2022 11:30 AM
i am on a windows 11 and my virtualization on but i cant find it.
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kwester-ebbinghaus-business
in Hotpatching on Windows on Mar 08 2022 06:34 AM
Dear @Mehmet_Iyigun thanks for your great blog explaining this cool tech. I hope it is coming to Windows Clients anytime soon. Do you have insights on the naming of the hotpatch category name in the update catalog?
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robhearn
in Hotpatching on Windows on Dec 13 2021 01:55 PM
According to 0patch's FAQ, they don't patch the kernel for the specific reason you mention...(source: Can you micropatch all types of vulnerabilities? – Help Center (zendesk.com)) We currently cannot directly* micropatch:Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel; this is due to the fact that Windows have an...
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Zhang_Ming
in Developer Guidance for Hardware-enforced Stack Protection on Dec 06 2021 09:48 PM
How to identify User mode or Kernel mode are being used? Do that mean if we enable shadow stack, user mode and kernel mode are both being used?
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Arkha75
in Windows Sandbox on Dec 04 2021 02:10 AM
heee and not app sandbox  for Windows 10 Pro 
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