April 2007
April 2007
ZDNet Blogs - The vast majority of pirated black-market software being sold in the back alleys from Moscow to Bangladesh are laced with backdoors and rootkits. Not selling them software at prices proportional to their income levels simply means the bad guys get
Security researchers warn that phishers are manipulating QuickTime
eWeek - A study done by anti-virus veteran Roger Thompson rates Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2007 as the best at detecting and removing stealth rootkits; Microsoft’s Windows Defender was a big disappointment in the study.
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Baseline - Turn Their Attention to the Corporate World McNealy Out as Sun CEO, Schwartz In Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits Mobile Case Study: RouteOne deploys specialized SOA hardware from IBM to simplify, help secure & accelerate SOA Better Email
Itanium 2 used to build DNS super-server
TechWorld - SourceT authenticates its own code when the server is booted up, a process that makes the system immune to rootkits and similar malware, Secure64 said. Since unnecessary functions have been stripped out of the OS, dedicated systems running it can
These programs protect you from Internet nasties
Cincinnati Enquirer - RootkitRevealer will help you discover rootkits on your computer. Rootkits are a type of malware that can make themselves invisible. RootkitRevealer sniffs out some of their common tricks. SDelete is a file shredder. Data recovery tools can’t read the