Re: Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit

According to Mikko Hyppönen's post to F-Secure's blog Sony
Electronics has confirmed that they received the research
report this week:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/arch
ive-082007.html#00001266

The post says that companies have opened direct discussion
channels and Sony will receive the  internal technical
report of the case.

Maybe we will see an official response document from Sony
later.

- Juha-Matti

Paul Sebastian Ziegler <pszobserved.de> wrote: 
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> Quark IT - Hilton Travis schrieb:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Apparently Sony cannot learn from their past and
have introduced another
> > rootkit with another of their devices.  This time
it is their Microvault
> > USB drive that has fingerprint security.
> 
> That is not exactly new news.
> 
> The devices are old and all that is
"rootkit-like" about them is the
> fact that they interact with the kernel in order to
hide their own files
> from corruption.
> 
> Not everything that interacts with the kernel is a
rootkit. Or would
> anyone want to classify GRSecurity as a rootkit? RBAC
will let you hide
> parts of your filesystem as well...
> 
> > Have a read of
> 
> Have another one:
> http://observed.de/?en
tnum=101
> 
> Now I was outraged by Sony's Copyprotection Rootkit -
but this is simply
> something different.
> 
> Many Greetings
> Paul
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