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• Android rootkit is just a phone call away

  Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious "rootkit" program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.

• Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

  One year after his Black Hat talk on Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was yanked by his employer, security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.

• Open source Qubes OS alpha available

  The security researcher who invented malware known as Blue Pill has come up with a secure open source operating system called Qubes OS that is available for alpha-testing downloads.

• Stealthy rootkit slides further under the radar

  Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.

• Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

  An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.