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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]
Virus writer suspects bagged by police
News McAfee UK security consultant Greg Day said in addition to installing a backdoor, the Trojan would attempt to hide itself by exploiting the rootkit-like properties of any Sony BMG digital rights management, or DRM, software installed on a system. [28 Jun 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]
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. One of the other flaws is also deemed critical but Microsoft said it is not aware of any malicious code that takes advantage of it. [14 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. The flaw found by Felten could allow Sony's original patch to trigger malicious software on a computer, if... [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]
Microsoft targets Sony copy-protection tool
News To protect Windows users, Microsoft plans to update Windows AntiSpyware and the Malicious Software Removal Tool as well as the online scanner on Windows Live Safety Center to detect and remove the Sony BMG software, the software maker said in its... [14 Nov 2005]
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