rootkit

Android is, by far, the fastest-selling cell phone OS, which could have known by the speed with which people are creating malware to attack it.

Source code and instructions for using the rootkit competing with Zeus for the title of most effective bank-targeting malware has been released by a hacker group; analysts expect to learn a lot that will help stop SpyEye, but also expect to be overwhelmed by script kid attacks.

Oh dear, did Sony quietly slip a rootkit onto the PS3 with the recent 3.56 system update? Did the company apply a suite of software tools designed to conceal (their) surreptitious file manipulation? To hide realtime processes executed without your knowledge or consent? Is your PS3 compromised?

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers' Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT security history.

Microsoft confirmed that a rootkit caused Windows PCs to crash after users applied a security patch issued last week.