Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Nov 2005 20:03 UTC
When Mark Russinovich was testing his company's security software last week, he came across a disturbing find: a Sony BMG CD he purchased from Amazon had secretly installed DRM software on his PC and used "rootkit" cloaking methods to hide it. With the story sweeping across the Net, Sony is attempting to clean up its mess.
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2005-07-27
I just googled "rootkit no root authentication required on unix" and came up with zero relevant results.
I'm tempted to google "rootkit upon music cd insertion on unix", but I can anticipate the results, this query actually begin a subset of the one above.