{"id":1903,"date":"2005-11-03T01:05:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2005-11-03T01:05:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T01:05:30","slug":"sony_secretly_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Sony Secretly Installs Rootkit on Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/sony_secretly_i_1.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mark Russinovich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html\">discovered a rootkit<\/a> on his system. After much analysis, he discovered that the rootkit was installed as a part of the DRM software linked with a CD he bought. The package cannot be uninstalled. Even worse, the package actively cloaks itself from process listings and the file system.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Fascinating and scary look at the DRM mess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier: Mark Russinovich discovered a rootkit on his system. After much analysis, he discovered that the rootkit was installed as a part of the DRM software linked with a CD he bought. The package cannot be uninstalled. Even worse, the package actively cloaks itself from process listings and the file system. Fascinating and scary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}