Sony RootKit Still A Problem? 268
XMilkProject writes "Current research indicates that some "350,000 networks--many belonging to the military and government--contain computers affected by [Sony's rootkit]." This is down from over half a million last month. "The security researcher worked from a list of 9 million domain-name servers.. asking each to look up whether an address used by the XCP software--in this case, xcpimages.sonybmg.com--was in the systems' caches." Will Sony face future repercussions for this potentially long-term damage?"
Re:Sony won't be harmed, users will (Score:1, Informative)
Or did you mean court martial instead of corporal punishment.
Anonymous Pedant
You obviously didn't read the settlement (Score:4, Informative)
Small claims court is the most likely venue, because you don't really need a lawyer to represent yourself and if Sony doesn't send a representative, you get a default judgement.
Collecting might be a bitch, but in this case, it definitely won't be the lawyers making all the money.
Re:How-to? (Score:4, Informative)
[root@kryten pete]# nslookup
> set norecurse
> www.xmob.co.uk
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Name: www.xmob.co.uk
Address: 217.77.184.55
> www.microsoft.com
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find www.microsoft.com: No answer
>
Re:Sony won't be harmed, users will (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Problem not eliminated (Score:3, Informative)
While the person replying said "checkout line", the original post still makes sense.
Re:Makes you wonder.... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Never made sense (Score:3, Informative)
No, that's just...not...possible.
And yet, the data just keeps coming back loud and clear.
It doesn't do this for all names. Certainly, Sunncomm Mediamaxx is reported on far fewer networks -- 50K, maybe? And as mentioned, I threw out hundreds of thousands of servers for returning values they shouldn't already have cached.
You know, if I was wrong -- and I'd love to be, it's a rare day in security where things are *better* than you thought -- you'd think Sony would have corrected me by now. But look at their very own figures:
2.1M CD's sold.
38% Penetration of the PC code.
That's ~700K systems, which is vaguely in line. No, the count is not what's interesting...it's the international nature of the data. That just has no explanation to speak of.