Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits

Seems never ending.

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.

Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered invisible to the operating system, but which can give attackers a picture of what's happening in a computer's memory.

The SMM rootkit comes with keylogging and communications software and could be used to steal sensitive information from a victim's computer. It was built by Shawn Embleton and Sherri Sparks, who run an Oviedo, Florida, security company called Clear Hat Consulting.

PC World Article

Now another thing to worry about.

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Why do people who run a security company build such fiendish crap? Were they even arrested?

Why do people who run a security company build such fiendish crap? Were they even arrested?

If you have a security company,you need bad guys out there doing bad things.

Otherwise,you're out of business!!!

Same holds true for cops and lawyers.

:) davey