Security Now! Episode 9: Rootkits

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Security Now! Episode 9: Rootkits
By leo@leoville.com (Leo Laporte) on Security
This week Steve and I discuss Rootkits and how spyware is beginning to used this advanced hacker technique to hide from you (and removal tools). We also recommend an excellent rootkit revealer.

This week's links:

• Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer rootkit scanner
• RootKit Revealer info
• Microsoft's malicious software removal tool (adding rootkit detection)
• F-Secure's new BlackLight (beta release)
• Microsoft Research Strider Ghostbuster Rootkit Detection and other useful info
• The "rootkit" web site. This site contains sample code for a number of user-mode and kernel-mode rootkits as well as ongoing discussions on how to develop rootkits.
• The legendary hacker/cracker "Phrack" web site. This site stores the archive of Phrack, a cracker-oriented magazine where developers share flaws in security-related products, rootkit techniques, and other malware tips and tricks.
• Thanks to Jamie Diamond (a high school sophomore) for our opening theme and Mark Blasco for our closer.
  

Running time: 32:19