Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance.The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory space that's tightly locked down. The ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Security is never black and white. If someone asks, "for best security, should I do A or B?" the answer almost invariably is both. But security is always a trade-off. Often it's impossible to do both A and B -- there's no time to do both, it's too expensive to ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Thousands of downloads. Countless positive reviews on software blogs around the Internet. It's been quite a ride so far for Microsoft Security Essentials.In AV Comparative's most recent report on malware removal, MSE was the only free antivirus rated Advanced+. That ranking placed it alongside big names like Norton, Kaspersky, and ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Researchers at several security firms have tied the Bredolab Trojan to a spam campaign targeting Facebook users.The malware is being blasted out by spammers in e-mails claiming to come from “The Facebook Team." Inside the e-mails is a message that the recipient's Facebook password has been changed. In order to ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Most security software programs that are available these days provide protection against rootkits as well. There are on the other hand a few security programs that deal solely with rootkits. One of them is Trend Micro’s RootkitBuster which has just been released in a new version which adds the ability ...
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