Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble
| Title: | Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble (ID: CSD4290) | | Author(s): | Quinn Norton (Wired News) | | Topics: | Anti-Circumvention Restrictions or Copy Protection Devices, Cybersecurity, DRM, Licensing, Network Security and Applications, Viruses and Worms | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | "More than half a million networks, including military and government sites, were likely infected by copy restriction software distributed by Sony on a handful of its CDs, according to a statistical analysis of domain servers conducted by a well-respected security researcher and confirmed by independent experts recently. Each installation of Sony's rootkit not only hides itself and rewrites systems drivers, it also communicates back out to Sony.
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