Sony RootKit Still A Problem?
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?