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.

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 ...

Rootkits do not signal impending doom for corporate IT, but companies need to keep up their defenses as the malware tools begin to spread, experts say. The best way to deal with rootkits is to prevent ...

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 , ...

The detectors themselves typically work by comparing different views of the system and seeing where there's a mismatch. One of the original ways to perform this kind of detection was to dump a ...

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 ...

One of the newest threats in the wild—what security mavens mean by "loose on the net"—is called a "rootkit," or RK for short. While a rootkit by itself causes no damage, it attempts to ...

Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little ...

Researchers have discovered a new malware attack campaign that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies for processing big data sets and data streams. The attackers ...