Linux magazine prints rootkit how-to

Arming sys admins with all they need to know to write a rootkit...

Imaginatively named magazine for Linux users Linux Magazine has published an article entitled 'How to write a rootkit'. The piece is the cover story for the August issue of the magazine.

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According to the magazine's website the aim of the article is to arm systems administrators with the knowledge they need to stop rootkits - and anti-rootkit technology is examined elsewhere in the magazine. However, this does not detract from the fact that much of the cover article is devoted to an in-depth description of the routines required by a successful kernel rootkit - including example code.

While the writer suggests that rootkit techniques come in handy for the security-minded admin, the only example given is 'benign rootkit' Kernel Guard, which disables the kernel's module-loading functionality. The magazine goes on to analyse two Linux security systems - AppArmor and SELinux.

To see this piece of astonishingly irresponsible journalism for yourself, visit http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/69/.

01 August 2006

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