Lab Notes

"The professionalism of these rootkits is coming to another level," said Allen Schimel, chief strategy officer at StillSecure. He's talking about the latest wave of malware, which seems to be of a much higher quality. Rootkit authors have created generic tools to bypass detection software. All a script kiddie needs to do is to get one of these kits, wrap their own nefarious payload in it, and set it loose on the net to create their own spambots, DDOS zombies, or simply wreak havoc on users' hard drives. It's days like these that make me glad I'm primarily a Mac user (not that Macs are invulnerable, of course, though they do have a lot fewer incidents).