Sony/BMG CD Exchange

Here’s the site where if you have a CD that contains the Sony/BMG XCP rootkit Copy protection, you can get a replacement copy. Continue Reading…

Sony Boycott

This just in from The Evil Genius Chronicles about the brouhaha over Sony/BMG’s use of nasty rootkit programs to enforce their DRM. A boycott was inevitable, really. Continue Reading…

Zombie or Pirate? You choose. This is not a Halloween question!

The furor over the rootkit software on Sony/BMG audio CDs has really hit the fan. The mainstream media have picked up on it, which not only illustrates the power of the online world’s blogosphere, but may be the only hope for getting something done about it. Continue Reading…

Sony/BMG CD’s with DRM installing rootkits

This just in from the Security Now podcast: Sony/BMG is selling copy protected CDs that install a rootkit – a hidden backdoor program – on any computer used to play them!

The hijacking software was discovered by Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals.com whan he was working on an update of their Rootkit Revealer software. Continue Reading…