What commercial software uses rootkits or rootkit like technology? I guess it depends on how you define a rootkit.

After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec is calling for an industrywide effort to define what the term ...

What is a rootkit? Isn't that something that virus writers use? A rootkit is a powerful piece of software that takes over control of a computer at the most fundamental level. In computer terms, it ...

It can be quite a tough task to kick out rootkits from infected Windows systems. Our list of top anti rootkit software will prove handy.

A Dutch web developer has created a rootkit that hides inside a PHP module and can be used to take over web servers via a rarely used attack vector: Apache modules.

The rootkit has even been found on computers run by the Department of Defense, to the Department of Homeland Security's displeasure.

Security researchers tracking the operations of a cyber-espionage group found the first evidence of a rootkit for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) being used in the wild.

Security researchers at ESET have discovered a rootkit, known as Lojax, that can infect the UEFI of machines, surviving operating system reinstalls and complete internal drive replacements ...

Internet professor Michael Geist explains why Sony's rootkit problems have significant long-term implications for the industry. Sony BMG, the world's second largest record label, has for the past ...

Earlier this week we reported on the alleged discovery of a rootkit within the latest PS3 firmware update 3.56 that could give Sony the ability to execute code on the PS3 as soon as a user goes ...