What commercial software uses rootkits or rootkit-like technology? I guess it depends on how you define rootkits. Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (he's the programmer who brought the Sony DRM rootkit ...

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have detailed how cyber criminals have been using FiveSys, a rootkit that somehow made its way through the driver-certification process to be digitally signed ...

The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton ...

Modern computers utilize what is known as a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to get up and running. When you press the power button on your Mac or PC, the UEFI begins communicating with ...

Rootkits do not signal impending doom for corporate IT, but companies need to keep up their defenses as the malware tools begin to spread, experts say. The best way to deal with rootkits is to prevent ...

Once installed, the rootkit would be able to silently monitor and control the device -- a troubling notion given Cisco's dominance in the router market A security researcher has developed malicious ...

The detection and eradication of rootkits — the software code increasingly used to hide malware or adware — is either fairly simple or nearly impossible, depending on which security expert is bringing ...

Nearly two years after Sony faced a storm of criticism for using a rootkit-like program in its digital rights management (DRM) technology, security researchers at F-Secure say they have discovered ...

A probable Chinese rootkit infects targeted computers and stays active even if the system is being reinstalled. Malware exists in different flavors. Most of the time, malware consists of malicious ...