Thursday, December 8, 2005

New Sony CD security risk

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced they had found, and fixed, <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984764.html?tag=nl.e589">a new computer security risk</A> associated with some of the record label's CDs. The danger is associated with copy-protection software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. The vulnerability could allow malicious programmers to gain control of computers that have run the software, which is typically installed automatically when a disc is put in a computer's CD drive. The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the copy-protection gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record label.

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