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 ...

One of the newest threats in the wild—what security mavens mean by "loose on the net"—is called a "rootkit," or RK for short. While a rootkit by itself causes no damage, it attempts to ...

When a security researcher late last year discovered Sony was using hidden software-cloaking and monitoring techniques to protect copyrights on its music CDs, public backlash prompted lawsuits against ...

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 ...