Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Rootkits. If an illegal hacker wants to do something to your system, such as plant a virus, a Trojan horse program or spyware, he has to gain access to the system ...

ORLANDO – If your system gets infiltrated by a rootkit, you might as well just “waste the system entirely,” a Microsoft official told fellow security professionals last week at the annual InfoSec ...

Research into how rootkits are used by cybercriminals has revealed that close to half of campaigns are focused on compromising government systems. On Wednesday, Positive Technologies released a report ...

Researchers have unpacked a major cybersecurity find—a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 to ensure computers remained infected even if an operating system is reinstalled or a ...

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 ...

When a security researcher late last year discovered Sony was using hidden software-cloaking and monitoring techniques to protect copyrights on its music CDs, public backlash prompted lawsuits against ...

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue.

Antivirus firms Trend Micro and Sophos have developed new tools to discover rootkit infections but both are attacking the problem from a slightly different angle. Rootkits are powerful programs that ...

Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee claims the blame falls squarely on the open-source community. In its “Rootkits” report being published Monday , ...