Archive for November, 2005

Sony was aware of rootkit problem long ago, F-Secure says

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

F-Secure, the Finnish anti virus firm have said that they informed Sony about the Rootkit that they had shipped on millions of music CD’s by well known artists. It turns out that in September a PC technician in America was trying to rid a PC of a nasty rootkit. .John Guarino who owns tecangels.com discovered it on some PC’s he was repairing. He noticed that the Rootkit appeared when he put a Sony CD by one of the now known artists into a PC.Guarino then sent an email to the Finnish Anti Virus Company F-Secure explaining what he had found. This was sent on Sept 30th 2005. F-Secure investigated his finings and notified Sony about the dangers. It wasnt until Oct 20th that F-Secure and First4Internet got together and F-Secure explained that hackers could use their Rootkit to hide files. First4Internet disagreed saying that nobody knew about so how could it be used.

It was around Oct 25th when Mark Russinovich discovered it using RootkitRevealer. He then informed the internet via his very popular blog. Sony were slow to act at any stage throughout events surely this will have lasting affects. They cant ssay they werent warned.

Keep Safe

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Steo
www.antirootkit.com

The Next Microsoft Windows Internet Epidemic Exposed

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

New backdoor program uses Sony rootkit

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Sony’s ‘Rootkit’ Is on 500,000 Systems, Expert Says

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Sony Suspends Rootkit CDs

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Microsoft to delete Sony DRM ‘rootkit’

Sunday, November 13th, 2005