Blog storm

Saturday, September 1st, 2007 1,846 views

Those of you not currently residing under a rock, may have heard of the Storm worm, a somewhat nasty trojan that's currently making a mess on the intarwebs. So far it has been spread primarily through email, adding infected hosts to it's ever growing botnet which experts estimates numbers in ...

Bioshock shipping with rootkit?

Sunday, August 26th, 2007 970 views

Looks like 2K Games are in for a rough ride with it's much anticipated release of Bioshock, the successor to the popular System Shock games. Following several blog posts, a slashdot article and an uproar on 2K Games' official forums, it's clear that the much maligned SecuROM DRM/copy protection is ...

0wning an Acer notebook

Monday, January 8th, 2007 1,425 views

Tan Chew Keong over at vuln.sg has some interesting news for owners of Acer notebooks. Apparently they all come with a rootkit preinstalled, in the form of an ActiveX control called "LunchApp.ocx" that is registered and marked "safe for scripting" (that is, any web page embedding the code to launch ...