Mark Russinovich couldn’t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he is careful when it comes to computer security and ...

After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...

Software that makes it simple to bypass any form of anti-copying technology used to protect music CDs has been released by a computer magazine and a software company in Germany. The program exploits ...

Sony’s copy-protected CDs — the ones that secretly install a sneaky Hax0r “root kit” on customers’ PCs — can also install copy-protection software on Macs, according to a Macintouch report: … I was ...