Suspicious Rootkit Lurks in EIS Software

Trend Micro researchers received a sample of an enterprise information security (EIS) program component file that exhibits easily abused rootkit capabilities. Enterprise information security (EIS) systems are used by companies to monitor activities within a network. This is done to make sure that security processes are followed, and that all activities done within the [...]

Microsoft’s Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Playing catch-up with Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google’s warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo’s SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft’s Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it in the form of [...]