Execs say that the newly acquired technology provided by the Komoku purchase allows businesses to better respond to the increased use of rootkits as an attack tool to their networks and systems. The ...

Microsoft has acquired Komoku, maker of rootkit detection products. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Komoku creates both hardware and software approaches to rootkit detection.

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 ...

A newly discovered rootkit may not be particularly threatening in itself, but its unique method of concealment could pave the way for more malicious exploits, researchers say. Symantec and F-Secure ...

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Microsoft hopes to beef up its security capabilities with the acquisition of Komoku, a developer of rootkit detection products, announced on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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 ...

Sophos PLC has released a free tool to help PC users root out rootkits. Called Sophos Anti-Rootkit, the software will detect and remove both known and unknown rootkits, and it will also warn system ...

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