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  • Obsolete WEP Wi-Fi gets new security shield

    Rival AirDefense bought out a "cloaking" solution in April, which injects "spoof" WEP packets into the air, to put crackers off the scent, but AirTight dismissed this approach in a presentation at the DefCon 15 hacking convention in August.
    18 September 2007
    Tags: Peter Judge • Protect • Scheme • Retail • Handheld • Releasing

  • More Sony USB drives open to rootkits

    Nearly two years ago, security researchers spotted rootkit-like cloaking technologies used by the copy-protection software that Sony BMG Music Entertainment installed on PCs when customers played the label's audio CDs.
    31 August 2007
    Tags: Continues • Hackers • Cases • Gregg Keizer • Folder • Downloaded

  • Researchers blow open Vista's kernel security

    Drivers not equipped with a legitimate certificate aren't loaded.The thinking behind the move was that it would stymie rootkits, which load driver code into the kernel as part of their cloaking tactics.But a pair of Symantec security researchers…
    31 July 2007
    Tags: Prevent • Gregg Keizer • Kernel • Loads • Drivers • Requirement

  • McAfee offers free solution to rootkit attacks

    We use a variety of means to detect processes, files, and registry keys that might otherwise remain hidden, and to bypass cloaking techniques employed by the rootkit authors.In passing out Rootkit Detective to consumers and businesses free of…
    26 July 2007
    Tags: Mcafee • End Users • Kernel • Blocking • Labs • Remove

  • Researchers crack WEP WiFi security in record time

    That's the approach taken by AirDefense in its WEP Cloaking product, which was released Monday. This should be enough to alert an IDS (intrusion detection system) to the attack, they say.Another way to defeat attacks like that of the Darmstadt…
    04 April 2007
    Tags: Keys • Protect • Flaws • Wifi • Crack • Material

  • Canadians get 'raw deal' in Sony settlement

    This digital rights management (DRM) software used rootkit cloaking techniques normally employed by hackers and was found to be a security risk as it is able to read and transmit IP addresses, thereby identifying the user and sending personal…
    25 September 2006
    Tags: Music • Sony • Entertainment • Rights • Raw • Canada

Latest Features

  • When is a "rootkit" really a rootkit?

    Rootkits are typically thought of as a collection of tools used by hackers to hide the presence of their malicious files and software on a system, but there is some debate as to whether all software that employs these cloaking techniques should be…
    19 January 2006
    Tags: Spyware • Sony • Professionals • Techniques • Rights • Dangerous

  • Why didn't more anti-virus programs spot Sony's rootkit?

    Ultimately XCP's cloaking ability was used by hackers to write malicious software, a development that prompted Sony to recall its XCP CDs.Shortly after its discovery XCP was classified as dangerous software by most security vendors, but Princeton…
    06 December 2005
    Tags: Mcafee • Spyware • Windows Vista • Techniques • Spot • Trusted

  • Sony is loading spyware into users' PCs

    And yet the security tool he was using to check his PC was pretty clear: It had found the "rootkit" cloaking software typically used by virus and spyware writers.After a bit of detective work, Russinovich eventually tracked down the source: a Sony…
    02 November 2005
    Tags: Installing • Spyware • Techniques • Lawsuit • Rights • Removed
 

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