F-Secure's description and blog posting. Note that, according to this posting, this is an independent confirmation of Mark Russinovich's analysis that I posted about yesterday and the day before.

(From autographedcat.)

Brian Krebs. (From DocBug)

A comment on Krebs' blog post contains a link to Sony Music's feedback form: <www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.cgi>; so I used it:

I was all set to buy another pair of Sony's excellent MDR 7509 ( Read more... )

Slashdot and BoingBoing both point to this article dissecting the rootkit that Sony installs in the name of DRM on their recent audio CDs. It hides registry entries and processes, and hooks into drivers and system calls, and creates a hidden directory. It's a rootkit -- one of the nastiest forms of malware out there.

It'll be a cold ( Read more... )