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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'rootkits'


Court Shutdowns Spyware Provider

A US District Court has ordered CyberSpy Software to stop selling its RemoteSpy which was took the art of the script kiddie to a whole new level....

Complexity Can Improve Security

Just over a year ago I discussed whether complexity is the enemy of security. I believed complexity is a significant threat to security. Like so many things in life, there is no simple black and white distinction here....

Defensive Malware and Ironic Outcomes of Military Research

In the past the military and the space agency NASA have spurred innovation in the public and business sectors with derived benefits from there research - take hand held calculators and the Internet for examples. Now the military is reversing...

Rootkits Pushing into Hardware

A fundamental problem with any malware detection technique is that you need a trusted platform to run your detection techniques. Advances in rootkit techniques make it more and more difficult to trust a device to be able to detect it's...

Botnets: How They Work and How to Detect Them

Botnets are growing in complexity and capabilities. This podcast describes botnet architectures, with particular emphasis on the most resilient kind, P2P botnets. The topic then shifts to examining the core functions of a botnet, including control of the botnet, bot's...

Symantec-Veritas Merger Improves Anti-Malware

Radical improvements in anti-malware detection isn't going to come from marginal tweaks to existing algorithms and techniques. We need fundamental changes. The Symantec Veritas merger is showing how this can be done. By combining disk scanning techniques that can bypass...

Sony Pays for Rootkit Use

Sony is paying up for their venture into rootkits, according to a Wired magazine blog. The posting goes on to say: "As with the other settlement, this one apparently only compensates individuals who damaged their computers by trying to remove...

More Rootkit Threats - This Time It's PCI Devices

An earlier posting described how a security researcher had demonstrated the feasibility of using the Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) to hide persisten rootkit code. The same researcher, John Heasman, has demonstrated the possibility of implementing a PCI rootkit along...

Can You Trust Your Firmware?

InformationWeek is reporting that the Bureau of Industry and Security within the U. S. Commerce Department has been attacked by Chinese hackers to the point where the department is replacing hardware. Has it gotten to the point that reformatting a...

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