The good news is that neither rootkit has shown up in the wild. And Dai Zovi says such a hack is not imminent. The bad news: Dai Zovi says these hacks haven’t been unleashed on unsuspecting enterprise ...
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 ...
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 , ...