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Hackers Take Aim at GOP
wired.com Online protesters threaten to gum up the web servers of Republican sites at a time when they will get the most traffic -- during the GOP's national convention. By Noah Shachtman.
7 years ago
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Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.
infoworld.com Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or "rootkits," that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individual
7 years ago
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Primary Response update targets Trojans, rootkits
infoworld.com Sana Security said on Monday that a new version of its Primary Response product can help customers detect a new generation of complex online threats, including Trojan horse programs and malicious remote monitoring software known as "rootkits."
7 years ago
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Companies lining up to root out rootkits
infoworld.com Stealthy, remote system access programs called "rootkits" could fuel the next big wave of malicious code, and are already beginning to influence the design of new Internet worms and viruses, according to security experts. Now security software companies a
7 years ago
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Holy Father on rootkit writing for fun, profit
infoworld.com The software developer behind a leading rootkit program says he is motivated by necessity, curiosity and a desire to expose weaknesses in the Windows operating system and security technology. He also isn't too worried about how others might use his softwa
7 years ago
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Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack
infoworld.com Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as "rootkits" have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The take-down was allegedly ordered by a shadowy group of hackers and rootkit authors who
7 years ago
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GOP Operative Launches Anti-Clinton Site (AP)
yahoo.com AP - A veteran GOP operative launched an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton Web site Tuesday, complete with an unflattering photo and a warning that she and her husband are trying to "pull the wool over America's eyes once again."
7 years ago
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Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel
slashdot.org nazarijo (Jose Nazario) writes "A group of people out there, let's call them 'elite hacker d00ds,' are able to skillfully craft Windows rootkits that evade almost any known detection system. Some people want to know how this is done, be they aspiring elit
6 years ago
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No Defense Against Windows Rootkits?
slashdot.org An anonymous reader writes "Spyware bad guys (and also phishing people) started using rootkits technology to stay hidden in a system. The problem is that at the moment the technology to defend a Windows system from these things is very poor. In fact antiv
6 years ago
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Rootkit Creators Turn Professional
slashdot.org pete richards writes "Signalling a trend towards increased 'outsourcing' of some elements of malware creation, worm authors are increasingly turning to commercially available rootkits to help their creations slip past virus detection engines. Those root k
6 years ago
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Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?
slashdot.org An anonymous read writes "SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It's installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant's "Get Right with the Man". (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces
6 years ago
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Sony installing rootkits?
news.com Blog: Web watchers were abuzz this morning on word that Sony has been installing rootkit software on its CDs, as part of its copy-protection...
6 years ago
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Worm with rootkit hits AOL chat service
infoworld.com (InfoWorld) - Links leading to a worm that eventually implants a nasty rootkit on a user's computer are popping up on America Online Inc.'s (AOL) Instant Messenger network, security researchers are rep
6 years ago
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Wednesday Tech Reading - Sony Installs Rootkits
ggmania.com
SECURITY...
Sony Installs 'Rootkits' On Users Machines - In what's set to be
2005's hottest story yet
Sony have been found to install illegal Trojan horse-based digital
restrictions management (DRM) technology that installs its
6 years ago
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More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit"
slashdot.org A couple of days ago we posted a story about Sony DRM installing a rootkit. Since then we have seen many more stories on the subject that I thought were worth sharing. manno gave us a link to the inquirer and salemnic sent us a page from the washington po
6 years ago
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Sony to offer patch for 'rootkit' DRM
theregister.co.uk Fix removes cloaking, but not the 'rootkit'
6 years ago
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Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit
games.slashdot.org shotfeel writes "First, news of Warden -a bit of code from Blizzard's WoW to trounce game cheats. Then, a Sony rootkit to make your computer safe for music. Now, news that you can use the Sony rootkit to make your game cheats safe from the Warden."
6 years ago
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Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit
slashdot.org shotfeel writes "First, news of Warden -a bit of code from Blizzard's WoW to trounce game cheats. Then, a Sony rootkit to make your computer safe for music. Now, news that you can use the Sony rootkit to make your game cheats safe from the Warden."
6 years ago
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World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit
theregister.co.uk Rootkit beets spyware
6 years ago
