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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)

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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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69573,00.html

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