Robert Lemos

Flaw finders and hackers have taken a shine to Apple’s polished operating system, but some say that recent security problems are more than just skin deep.
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The Attorney General for Texas announces the state is suing Sony BMG, calling the company’s copy-protection technology “illegal spyware.”
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced plans on Wednesday to pull from store shelves nearly 2.6 million CDs that include a controversial copy-protection program, offer consumers an opportunity to return the discs, and create a more secure program to help remove the software from people’s computers.
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As virus writers explore Sony BMG’s “rootkit,” consumer and security complaints against the content company have gained legal backing, with at least five cases filed or ready to be filed against the music giant.
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Large tables of password hashes can make cracking weak logon credentials a snap. Some enterprising people think there may be a business in putting the tables online.
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Prosecutors charge a California man with infecting 400,000 computers with bot software and profiting by selling access to the systems and through fraudulent affiliate referrals.
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The stealth capabilities of Sony BMG’s content protection shipped with tens of thousands of CDs can also hide cheating programs from Blizzard Entertainment’s detection tool.
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Copy protection shipped with music CDs from Sony BMG installs hidden, hard-to-uninstall digital rights management (DRM) software on Windows computers, causing security professionals to charge record labels with dealing in rootkits.
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The SPJ Northern California chapter bestowed its Excellence in Journalism award for Online Depth Reporting to CNET News.com’s Digital Agenda: Homeland Security, of which Robert Lemos was a primary author.

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