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Sony USB device harbouring "nasty" rootkit
News The criticism is reminiscent of that directed at Sony BMG Music Entertainment in November 2005, when a programmer revealed that a technique designed to cloak the company's copy-protection software for music CDs also could be used by virus writers... [03 Sep 2007]
Sony DRM settlement passes final legal hurdle
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 For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy protection are a cautionary example of the downside of DRM. Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. In adopting active protection, Sony-BMG crossed an important... [14 Apr 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]
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's ongoing troubles with copy-protection software highlight the delicate line that record labels and... [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. Sony reported that over the past eight months it shipped more than... [16 Nov 2005]
Microsoft targets Sony copy-protection tool
News The Redmond, Washington, software maker has determined that the "rootkit" piece of the XCP software on some Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs can pose a security risk to Windows PCs, according to a posting on Saturday to a Microsoft corporate blog. [14 Nov 2005]
Music industry ditches hardcore copyright for 'free love' tunes
News Record companies in Europe, however, still seems to be worried about the prospect - Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, recently launched CDs in three formats including luxury and no-frills version to deter unauthorised copying. [06 Oct 2004]
EMI invests to protect digital downloads
News In April, EMI teamed up with BMG, part of media colossus Bertelsmann, and Warner Bros, part of AOL Time Warner, in a venture called MusicNet to develop digital music platforms. The other two major labels - Sony and Vivendi Universal - have... [05 Jun 2001]
