Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, developed the software, which he will unveil on May 22 at the ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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 more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the WiFi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the networks was called "Free Public WiFi". If this happens to you, ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's chip, undetected by today's anti-virus products.
Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered ...
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