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News A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a endgame in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anti-piracy software the company had embedded in some music CDs. The court action picked up last autumn when security... [23 May 2006]
Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security
White Paper Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy protection are a cautionary example of the downside of DRM. In adopting active protection, Sony-BMG crossed an important... [14 Apr 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Bertelsmann also owns pan-European broadcaster RTL, publisher Random House and half of music company Sony BMG. German media group Bertelsmann plans a return to the internet and is looking at transforming its Direct Group of book, CD and DVD clubs... [04 Apr 2006]
UK voted internet villain 2006
News Sony BMG, European commissioner Viviane Reding, the EC and Russia were also nominated as villains of the web. Anti-terror moves that would force ISPs to retain data for longer in Europe got the thumbs down last night, as the UK was crowned internet... [24 Feb 2006]
Anti-spyware group agrees detection guidelines
News The guidelines should also make it clearer when companies cross the line of what's acceptable and legal and what's not when it comes to downloads, as Sony BMG did recently with its "rootkit" programs, said a spokesman for the ASC. [13 Jan 2006]
Hacker hidey-hole found in Symantec product
News Symantec's alert has echoes of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's recent PC security fiasco. Symantec credits Mark Russinovich, the Sysinternals researcher who also investigated the Sony rootkit, and F-Secure, a Finnish security company that has a... [12 Jan 2006]
Sony's DRM settlement gets legal thumbs-up
News A New York judge has given a preliminary approval to the settlement of consumers' lawsuits against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, according to an Associated Press report. The suits were filed after the exposure of serious security risks to computers... [09 Jan 2006]
Sony to cough up DRM damages
News Sony BMG has struck a deal with the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit over copy-restriction software it used in music CDs, according to a settlement document filed at a New York court on Wednesday. [03 Jan 2006]
Microsoft fixes smorgasbord of IE flaws
News The browser security update also tackles part of the fallout from Sony BMG Music Entertainment's rootkit debacle. Microsoft on Tuesday provided a fix for a "critical" security flaw in Windows that is being exploited in online attacks against... [14 Dec 2005]
Internet's 'heroes' and 'villains' to be named and shamed
News But surely the bookies' favourite will be Sony BMG who shocked the security world and appalled customers with the inclusion of rootkit software on its music CDs which exposed users to a heightened risk of hacks and online attacks. [13 Dec 2005]
More flaws: Sony's latest patch comes unstuck
News Sony BMG is replacing a patch for its CD copy protection software after Princeton University researchers found a security flaw in the update. Sony announced on Tuesday that a new risk had been found with a batch of 27 of its CDs, which... [09 Dec 2005]
Sony unearths new copy-protection threat
News Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs. [07 Dec 2005]
Sony CD saga: Alert over new security risk
News Computer researchers uncovered a new security risk on Friday related to Sony BMG Music Entertainment copy-protected CDs, which could expose several hundred computers to attack. The latest risk is from an uninstaller program distributed by SunnComm... [21 Nov 2005]
Sony's DRM woes grow as hackers say hello
News Sony BMG took another blow on Wednesday, when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to defuse the record label's "rootkit" problems. Websense's security labs reported it has discovered several websites... [17 Nov 2005]
Sony recalls millions of copy-protected CDs
News Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment said on Tuesday that it will recall millions of CDs that, if played in a consumer's PC, will expose the computer to serious security risks. Anyone who has purchased one of the CDs, which include southern... [16 Nov 2005]
