Bad Day to be Sony

[VirusType2]

BitDefender have today released details of a second variation of the Sony DRM backdoor Trojan, called Backdoor.IRC.Synd.B. Similar to the first Trojan found earlier today but written with a new digital signature to get past anti-virus detection

The damage spans 165 countries, with the top five countries being Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States and Japan

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Your Rights Online: Bad Day To Be Sony
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 15, @02:52PM
from the who-needs-customer-loyalty dept.

Not only is Sony no longer selling the RootKit CDs, Arend writes "According to a USAToday article, Sony is to pull their controversial rootkit CDs from store shelves." A nice gesture, but a little late. bos writes "Sony's DRM rootkit has been found by Dan Kaminsky to have infected at least half a million networks, according to an article by Quinn Norton for Wired News. Dan has even put together some pretty pictures of the breadth of the infection." With so many people infected, it's unfortunate that wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit.

'Because of the way the tool is configured ... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes.'" Oops. Even Microsoft is getting into the act. ares284 writes "Microsoft said it would remove controversial copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG install on personal computers, deeming it a security risk to PCs running on Windows."

http://slashdot.org/

Sony BMG last week provided a patch to make the program more visible after the discovery that hackers had taken advantage of the weakness to install viruses on PCs.
That was after the U.S. government had weighed in.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10050095/

US government steps in

U.S. president Bush and Department of Homeland Security get involved
"Bowing to public outrage, Sony BMG has temporarily halted the use of its controversial anti-piracy software in all of its music CDs, the company said in a statement today. The move comes just a day after a top Bush administration official chided Sony and the entertainment industry for going too far: according to this story over at Washingtonpost.com, Stewart Baker, the Department of Homeland Security's policy czar warned would-be DRM makers: 'It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.' The Post has the full text and video of his commentary." We've reported on this story previously.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/1927225&tid=172

Movie:

the Chamber of Commerce was kind enough to provide a Webcast of the event.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/the_bush_admini.html

we [microsoft] will add a detection and removal signature for the rootkit component of the XCP software to the Windows AntiSpyware beta

So apparently, anytime you put a Sony BMG music disc in your computer to listen to it, it will try to install it again. Opens the back door for other hacker viruses

Seems to have had an impact (duh)
Reuters:
Live stock quote
Microsoft +84%
Sony - 53%
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10050095/

Download Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta Here: (free)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en

 

[dream431ca]

Wow. That's a first..good find. Nice read too.

 

[OCybrManO]

Wow. That's a first..good find. Nice read too.

People here still haven't heard about this? :O

 

[VirusType2]

People still haven't heard about this?

UPDATED:
Most of us have heard of it, not everyone really realizes how ****ed up what Sony did. Sony's End User License Agreement E.U.L.A.(does anyone read this shit)is something like, they can just go and erase shit from your computer if they want, compiled with the fact that they opened the back door for hackers and viruses. As if this wasn't bad enough, this program is on Sony music Discs (BMG is the recording label)and secretly installs and hides from you. If you remove it incorrectly, it disables your CD ROM from recording anymore.

shit is hitting the fan right about now

The President of USA chastised Sony

I put it all together and provided anti-spyware link for Legitimate Windows users.


I downloaded the latest version and ran a scan. Nothing detected :cheers:

 

[diluted]

...which is why I don't buy music anymore. :|

 

[JNightshade]

Sony - 53%

is that for real? I mean, seriously, Sony's stock down 53%? That's insane.

 

[JellyWorld]

is that for real? I mean, seriously, Sony's stock down 53%? That's insane.

It's down 0.53%, not 53%...

 

[Raziaar]

Good thing I don't buy music.

 

[NapalmCowboy]

I apologize for the ignorance, but what essentially is a Sony "BMG"? Is it a music CD that Sony published?

 

[VirusType2]

Pretty sure Sony is the publisher and BMG is the recording label

I thought people would all like to know just what CDs contain Sony's software. DON'T PUT THESE IN YOUR COMPUTER!

Trey Anastasio - Shine
Celine Dion - On ne Change Pas
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times
Chris Botti - To Love Again
Van Zant - Get Right With the Man
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Acceptance - Phantoms
Susie Suh - Susie Suh
Amerie - Touch
Life of Agony - Broken Valley
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Blue
Gerry Mulligan - Jeru
Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s
Dion - The Essential Dion
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Ricky Martin - Life
My Morning Jacket - Z *
Santana - All That I Am *
Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album *

* features copy-protection technology that is not XCP, but still suspect

Thanks! Is this the complete list?

lol@ Suspicious activity, Healthy in Paranoid Times, The Invisible Invasion

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

Yepp, that's all the infected discs

 

[AzzMan]

Well good thing all those CD's suck, not finding their way into my comp anytime soon....or ever

 

[Xune]

lol@ Suspicious activity, Healthy in Paranoid Times, The Invisible Invasion

Someone inside Sony was trying to warn us!

Seriously though, where can I get a scanner for this stuff?