Anti Rootkit Blog

Alexander Kornbrust, of Red Database Security has developed Version 2.0 of an Oracle Rootkit which was first unveiled towards the middle of 2005. He will be unveiling his new version at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas in July 2006.Creating rootkit’s may seem as hacker activity but Kornbrust has defended his creations by saying that they are to highlight the fact that rootkit’s do exist and can be sued to compromise systems. The same thinking is behind rootkit.com where developers can showcase rootkit’s that they have developed. Publicly displaying rootkit’s can show OS developers how their systems can be used to hide malicious code and that they should be doing something to stop rootkit’s from getting in to the operating system in the first place.

Companies like Oracle and Microsoft need to put mechanisms in place to stop hackers and malware authors using their code to perform malicious activity. Until OS developers come up with a permanent solution rootkit’s will be used. They need to protect their users from the harm that they can do.

Keep Safe

regards
Steo
www.antirootkit.com