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Re:Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Hua... by dfox on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:15PM (#19568566)
Writing "drivers" that do questionable things for even more questionable reasons seems to be par for the course in the Windows ecosystem. If I understand the whole situation correctly, Fortnite installs WHQL certified kernel driver, whose sole purpose is to cause BSOD when LSASS.EXE maps pages from the Fortnite process...
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Re:Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Hua... by wyldfire on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:06PM (#19568782)
Is that an anti-cheat feature?
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Re:Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Hua... by pjmlp on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:32AM (#19570262)
As if the same OEMs would constrain themselves when targeting other platforms.
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