Microsoft Launches Center for Reporting Malicious Drivers (therecord.media) 27
Microsoft has launched this week a special web portal where users and researchers can report malicious drivers to the company's security team. From a report: The new Vulnerable and Malicious Driver Reporting Center is basically a web form that allows users to upload a copy of a malicious driver, which gets uploaded and analyzed by a Microsoft automated scanner. At a technical level, Microsoft says this automated scanner can identify techniques that are commonly abused by malicious drivers, such as:
Drivers with the ability to map arbitrary kernel, physical, or device memory to user mode.
Drivers with the ability to read or write arbitrary kernel, physical, or device memory, including Port I/O and central processing unit (CPU) registers from user mode.
Drivers that provide access to storage that bypass Windows access control.
Drivers with the ability to map arbitrary kernel, physical, or device memory to user mode.
Drivers with the ability to read or write arbitrary kernel, physical, or device memory, including Port I/O and central processing unit (CPU) registers from user mode.
Drivers that provide access to storage that bypass Windows access control.
That might cause most device drivers to be banned. (Score:2)
Just include a photo of their license plate (Score:5, Funny)
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And there I was going to ask if Microsoft had scale ready to accept all the uploaded Tesla Cam footage?
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When I first read the summary I thought I was reading a scene from Snow Crash, to be honest.
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Similar. I was thinking to myself how that would work (distracted driving) and then what, would Microsoft just forward it to the local cops or something? Took about half the summary for the lightbulb to turn on.
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<AOL>Me Too!</AOL>
Re: Just include a photo of their license plate (Score:2)
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Just upload their car so Microsoft can download the car.
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I'm sorry but downloading cars is piracy [youtube.com].
Closable Barn Doors Next? (Score:2)
Microsoft has launched this week a special web portal where users and researchers can report malicious drivers to the company's security team.
Maybe Microsoft can start selling closable barn doors next, eh?
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I'm not sure that analogy applies well to operating systems that receive updates.
Hands up, who hought this was abt dashcam shaming? (Score:3)
Software companies going into autonomous driving has totally screwed up my expectations...
Anticheat (Score:3, Interesting)
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It sounds like the system is to report and then analyze, not to auto-ban, so I don't see why legit game companies would have any problem.
Re:Anticheat (Score:4, Interesting)
Or while we're at it, a lot of DRM rootkits.
Please correct me if I am wrong (Score:3)
But wasn't the requirement that the drivers had to be signed (by MS, no less) supposed to make this a non-issue?
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No, and Microsoft does not claim otherwise. Signatures just protect the integrity of the driver binary and identify the vendor of the driver. The content of the driver is up to the vendor.
Hamilton (Score:2)
The British ... (Score:2)
Already done... (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/channe... [youtube.com]
Wham Baam Teslacam
Wait, this isn't about Road Rage? (Score:3)
I'm SO embarrassed. Clearly, it's the OTHER kind of Malicious Drivers.