Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble
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| 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: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (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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