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A security feature causing frame rate drops of up to 10%? There’s a lot to discuss here.

BlackLotus, which is a bootkit, has been doing the rounds on the internet since last year. This bootkit is capable of bypassing Secure Boot, disabling BitLocker, Microsoft Defender, and more.

ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of BlackLotus, the first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot.

Microsoft and Parallels have reached an agreement allowing the latter to bring Windows 11 to Apple's custom chips.

A threat actor that specializes in getting around multifactor authentication protection has added a new tool to its arsenal for infecting computers: Leveraging a known Windows weakness to compromise the operating system's kernel. The group is dubbed Scattered Spider by researchers at Crowdstrike. Others call it Roasted 0ktapus or UNC3944. Whatever the name, Crowdstrike says

Microsoft has extended Intel's mult-key Total Memory Encryption technology support to Windows 11 22H2 as well. This means the new feature update just got more secure than it already was.

Microsoft's recent gaming performance boost tips may be helping Intel in a bit of an unexpected way. Thanks to those disabled security features, Intel Arc is seeing a significant improvement.

The guide touches on two enhancement options related to Memory Integrity and the Virtual Machine Platform (VMP), which Microsoft says ...

Microsoft discusses the implications of toggling off these security features but now appears to officially approve of them being turned off – at least during a gaming session.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 11 has historically had a pretty rough time with Steam Surveys. But according to Septembers latest ...