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Several days ago this was supected. Now it is TRUE Sony AGAIN
Another Sony rootkit worms its way to the surface
Today, September 02, 2007, 3 hours ago | jeremy@arstechnica.com (Jeremy Reimer)
Once caught, always a suspect? Yet another rootkit has been discovered in a Sony product, which just goes to show you: some might forgive, but few forget.Sony can't catch a break after their infamous rootkit scandal back in 2005. In fact, we know from talking to security researchers and black hats alike that Sony is under the careful eye of many as a result of that major screwup. Now, a new story has come out involving Sony's biometric Micro Vault USM-F thumb drive, which apparently contains a rootkit that could potentially allow hackers to compromise users' PCs. The presence of the rootkit was first discovered by F-Secure, and was confirmed by Aditya Kapoor and Seth Purdy, researchers at McAfee, and posted on their blog.

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"The apparent intent was to cloak sensitive files related to the fingerprint verification feature included on the USB drives," Kapoor and Purdy wrote. "However, in this case (*cough* AGAIN! *cough*) the authors apparently did not keep the security implications in mind."



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[Vistanoob]

Good to know. I'm glad I don't have that brand of USB drive, and since the rootkit scandal of 2005 I'm glad I've never used my computers to play commercial DVDs. You'd think they would know better.