Hackers exploit gaping Windows loophole to give their malware kernel access

Microsoft blocks a new batch of system drivers, but the loophole empowering them remains.

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[passivesmoking]

“The software comes in the form of two software tools that are available on GitHub. Cheaters use them to digitally sign malicious system drivers so they can modify video games in ways that give the player an unfair advantage.”

And then hacking groups have been using these tools to sign malware instead of game cheating tools. Which you'd know if you'd RTFA.

I wonder if Ars' web team can implement something in Javascript that disables your ability to comment on an article until you've scrolled the page to the bottom in a time that's consistent with actually reading the article? That way people can't post stuff by the time they've got as far as the second paragraph.

Of course it wouldn't stop people with terrible reading comprehension skills, but it'd be something.

 

[passivesmoking]

There have been times that I've posted before finishing the article. Mostly on longer articles where I know I'll forget what I wanted to say by the time I finish. In those cases, I do search the article and comments to see if my thought was addressed or made by somebody else. It's not perfect, but I think I've only looked stupid once*, because a poster made the same comment, but didn't quote the article text.

I think the timer would annoy me. I'm generally considered a fast reader. I don't speed read, but pretty much the only people that read faster than I do are speed readers. If they implemented a timer, I'm sure I'd be pulling up the console within a week.

* For this reason; I look stupid plenty often for other reasons.

That's fair enough, though I think it's only fair to point out that I was being rather factitious. It was more an expression of frustration at somebody who clearly hasn't read (or understood) more than 2 paragraphs of the article whilst pontificating and passing judgement on a subject they're not qualified to comment on than a serious feature request.