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Article | 2/06/2010 Android rootkit is just a phone call away
Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they'...
Article | 6/05/2010 Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs
One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack pl...
Article | 8/04/2010 Open source Qubes OS alpha available
The security researcher who invented malware known as Blue Pill has come up with a secure open source operating system called Qubes OS that is availab...
Article | 16/04/2009 Stealthy rootkit slides further under the radar
Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.
Article | 21/11/2008 Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista
An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

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Article | 8/01/2010 The low-down on low-level rootkits
Rootkits, a type of stealth technology used by malware malefactors, attempt to hide in the dark corners of an infected PC and evade detection. A new p...
Article | 17/11/2008 A sneaky security problem, ignored by the bad guys
Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.

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