The on-line community is buzzing about a cloaking device favoured by hackers being put to use by a company everyone knows: Sony-BMG Corp. The Japanese giant is being accused of surreptitiously ...

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Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that ...

Sony BMG has settled two more lawsuits over CDs sold by the company that included a hidden copy-protection program that could be used by hackers to hide computer viruses. The company announced on ...

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a ...

Today’s vocabulary lesson from the world of technology is the word “rootkit.” This type of computer arcana is usually of no interest to people who don’t read PC World, but in this case your attention ...

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

According to an interview on the EUSecWest Web site with Sebastian Muniz, author of the IOS rootkit presentation, and software, the rootkit “consists of a binary modification to the IOS image” and so ...

A lot of malicious software originates in the former Eastern Bloc and other once-communist nations. Theories of why that is vary: Perhaps unemployed workers in those countries are highly educated in ...

When combined with Web threats, the new rootkit is proving to be both a destructive and prolific combination, security experts say. The rootkit models a similar virus from several years ago but with ...

Microsoft Corp. security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and ...