Re: Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit
According to Mikko Hypp=F6nen's post to F-Secure's blog Sony Electronics ha=
s confirmed that they received the research report this week:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082007.html#00001266
The post says that companies have opened direct discussion channels and Son=
y 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 <psz@observed.de> wrote:=20
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> Quark IT - Hilton Travis schrieb:
> > Hi All,
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> > Apparently Sony cannot learn from their past and have introduced anothe=
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> > rootkit with another of their devices. This time it is their Microvaul=
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> > USB drive that has fingerprint security.
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> That is not exactly new news.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> > Have a read of
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> Have another one:
> http://observed.de/?entnum=3D101
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> Now I was outraged by Sony's Copyprotection Rootkit - but this is simply
> something different.
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> Many Greetings
> Paul
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