Thursday, August 30, 2007

Fingerprint readers have rootkit

Sony appears to be reliving its rootkit nightmare of 2005, when it had to yank its XCP digital rights management technology after security experts said the technology used malicious rootkit techniques to evade detection on Windows systems.

This time, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2177289,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">three Sony USB fingerprint devices are planting hidden files</A> for two separate rootkit-like programs, according to security vendor F-Secure, based in Helsinki, Finland. F-Secure reported on Aug. 29 that its DeepGuard HIPS (host-based intrusion prevention system) was warning about a USB stick software driver.

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