Rootkits hit the news earlier this month when Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals noticed odd behaviour following installation of some digital rights management (DRM) software that shipped with a Sony ...

Are rootkits always unacceptable? People are asking that question with increasing frequency and many are answering yes. The Department of Homeland Security is talking about possibly outlawing rootkits ...

After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec is calling for an industrywide effort to define what the term “rootkit” ...

For as long as cyber criminals have been cooking up malicious software to do stuff like stealing your precious data, the security industry has been thinking up creative names for their little schemes.

Watch out, Linux users! A new rootkit is on the prowl, and it’s known for biting into its victims without causing a commotion. The rootkit, which goes by the name “Umbreon,” targets Linux machines, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Digital signatures are an industry-standard means of defending against malicious programs, but a recently spotted rootkit figured out how to outsmart them. Reading time 2 minutes A recent report by ...

A sophisticated rootkit that’s able to insert itself into the lowest levels of Windows computers — the motherboard firmware — has been making victims since 2020 after disappearing from the radar for ...

The detection and eradication of rootkits — the software code increasingly used to hide malware or adware — is either fairly simple or nearly impossible, depending on which security expert is bringing ...

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. Called Umbreon, after a Pokémon character that hides in the ...

Rootkits are both tricky and stealthy, but there are still some things that you can do if you suspect that one of your Linux system has been infected. After all, a rootkit is going to be doing ...