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November 21, 2005 The Sony copy-protection fiasco has moved the term from hacker lingo to a threat known and feared by ordinary PC owners. TAGS: rootkit, copy protection, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, hacker, McAfee Inc., Windows PC, expert, Sony Corp., threat, security, trojan horse, PC, CD, operating system

November 1, 2005 Anticopying tools used by SonyBMG could be adapted by virus writers, researchers say. TAGS: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, rootkit, copy protection, researcher, album, digital-rights management, protection, CD, Symantec Corp., security, instruction, Sony Corp., virus, operating system, hard drive, Microsoft Windows

November 4, 2005 Security software makers consider adding protection against the cloaking tool in Sony's anticopying technology. TAGS: Kaspersky Lab, rootkit, Graham Cluley, Sophos Plc., Sony Corp., digital-rights management, antivirus company, antipiracy, malicious software, security company, consultant, antivirus, security, malware, operating system, spyware

April 17, 2006 Security company sees a 700 percent rise in software used to cloak code, whether Trojan horses or commercial programs. TAGS: rootkit, McAfee Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, malicious software, malware, security, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

December 13, 2005 Travis Schluessler, an Intel security architect, explains how the chipmaker's labs plan to take on sophisticated threats. TAGS: rootkit, architect, chip company, threat, worm, Intel, virus, security, researcher, CPU, operating system, PC

February 21, 2006 Apple is working to patch operating-system vulnerability that could be exploited to install rootkits, backdoors. TAGS: shell script, flaw, Apple Mac OS, Apple Safari, attacker, back door, rootkit, Apple Computer, Apple Macintosh, expert, malicious code, Apple Mac OS X, vulnerability, Symantec Corp., operating system, security

February 28, 2007 Memory space on components such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries can be used by miscreants to load malicious code onto PCs. TAGS: malicious code, hardware component, rootkit, PCI, researcher, security, component, video card, memory, PC, battery, operating system

January 20, 2006 Barring a miracle or two, Jon Oltsik says the computer security scene will get a lot worse before it gets any better. TAGS: rootkit, computer security, software company, management, security, attack, information technology, database, HP, operating system, e-mail

December 5, 2007 Forget widespread worms. Nowadays, limited-scale threats like targeted e-mail attacks are causing the most concern. TAGS: security threat, Del.icio.us, Digg, hacker, security, rootkit, Microsoft Windows Vista, generation, conference, threat, Microsoft Corp., developer, operating system, Microsoft Windows

December 27, 2005 Sober came back to bite, while hackers hunted for new ways to attack and spread code--and Sony stumbled into a rootkit debacle. TAGS: Zotob worm, zombie, rootkit, Cisco Systems Inc., antivirus company, trick, worm, hacker, security, e-mail, antivirus, Web browser, server, operating system, Microsoft Corp., PC

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