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Future Core processors will feature DeepSAFE, an embedded capability that will help protect against rootkit attacks.
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Mandiant got the information from rootkit.com, an online forum where hackers share information about techniques.
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An enrichment plant not so much: which is why the rootkit is aimed at the enrichment plant, not any other part of the nuclear program.
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The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems.
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The backdoor could take the form of an installed program or subvert the system through what is known as a rootkit, a malicious software hard to detect.
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Hassan says he detected StarLogger on his machine with a rootkit scanner, deleted it, and later returned his laptop to the store where he bought it after experiencing a problem with a video driver.
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Remember the Sony rootkit fiasco from 2005?
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Malware keylogger, rootkit, worm, orTrojan is installed in subtle places.
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As NetworkWorld notes, that could lead to some more nefarious folks developing a SMM rootkit, which would be all the more perilous considering that the user of the infected computer would have no way of detecting the attack.
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Mark Russinovich of SysInternals did a detailed analysis of a "rootkit" (their word, not ours) he found on his PC, and discovered that, not only was it surreptitiously installed when he played a protected CD, but it also hogged system resources and integrated itself into Windows so deeply that uninstalling it disabled his CD drive.
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