Dark Reading: Below The Application: The High Risk Of Low-Level Threats

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In-memory attacks and rootkits may hit your systems below the OS. Here are some tips to help your defense

By Brad Causey
July 09, 2013

Excerpted from "Below the Application: The High Risk of Low-Level Threats," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Advanced Threats Tech Center.]

In all of the publicity around application attacks, cloud security and virtualization, many experts in the security field have let lower-level, more direct system attacks fall by the wayside. While there may be a reason to relax a little, given the huge leaps forward in network and computer system security, there are many good reasons to continue to pay special attention to these types of attacks.

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