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• Android rootkit is just a phone call away

  By Robert McMillan | 02 June, 2010 10:50

  Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.

• Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

  By Robert McMillan | 06 May, 2010 11:08

  One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.

• Open source Qubes OS alpha available

  By Tim Greene | 08 April, 2010 07:56

  The security researcher who invented malware known as Blue Pill has come up with a secure open source operating system called Qubes OS that is available for alpha-testing downloads.

• Stealthy rootkit slides further under the radar

  By Jeremy Kirk | 16 April, 2009 05:10

  Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.

• Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

  By Jeremy Kirk | 21 November, 2008 07:46

  An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.