All pages tagged with rootkit
What You Don't See On Your Hard Drive
This paper will address two security concerns that I found very interesting. They both have to do with things that are not in plain sight. The first security concern covers ...
Written by: Brian Kuepper and added on Jan. 10, 2011Detecting and Removing Malicious Code
Has it happened yet? The phone call, the e-mail, the page, or maybe you discovered it yourself. Something wasn't right: sluggish performance, too much network activity, a missing file. After ...
Written by: Matthew Tanase and added on June 18, 2011Discovery, Eradication and Analysis of an attack on an open system: Welcome to the Jungle
This is not necessarily a technical paper analyzing rootkit operation. There have been many excellent papers written that perform this function, some of which are referenced later. This paper is ...
Written by: Steve Terrell and added on March 4, 2011The Art of Rootkits (2nd ed)
A rootkit is a program. Rootkits come in all different shapes and styles, some more advance than others. Rootkits are basically programs that help attackers keep their position as root. ...
Written by: Marcus Unknown and added on May 30, 2011Linux RootKits For Beginners - From Prevention to Removal
One day while reading a mail list for the Linux Users Group in my hometown I discovered a call for help. It was a posting from a novice Linux user ...
Document added on May 5, 2011Hacker Tools and their Signatures, Part Three: Rootkits
This is the third installment of a series devoted to examining hacker tools and their signatures. In this installment we will be looking at some of the signatures related to ...
Written by: Toby Miller and added on Jan. 30, 2011Event Correlation in Security
In the deep and somewhat muddy sea of security marketing terms, correlation appears to be the current pack leader, closely chased by intrusion prevention. In this paper we will try ...
Written by: Anton Chuvakin and added on March 1, 2011