It showcases both sides of the i_o project's sound. The first half is dark and brooding. The second is sweet and melodic. By Kat Bein I like my coffee like I like my electronic music: dark and acidic.

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...

Today’s vocabulary lesson from the world of technology is the word “rootkit.” This type of computer arcana is usually of no interest to people who don’t read PC World, but in this case your attention ...

Rootkits hit the news earlier this month when Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals noticed odd behaviour following installation of some digital rights management (DRM) software that shipped with a Sony ...

Last year, anonymous executives at Sony BMG Music Entertainment blundered. They hid a “rootkit” on around two million compact discs. As senior editor Wade Roush explains in this month’s cover story, ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy… ...

The rise of rootkits Rootkits date back to the earliest years of the Internet, when crackers created cloaked variants of Unix commands to ensure their deeds on compromised systems would go undetected.

Rootkits hide processes, files, and network connections and can be written to perform like a device driver on any operating system. Most people associate rootkits with the questionable practices of ...

DRM can range from a nuisance to downright intrusive. A nuisance would be something along the lines of SunnComm's ill-fated MediaMax CD3 system, which could be thwarted by holding down the Shift key ...

A pair of security researchers has developed a new kind of rootkit, called an SSM, that hides in an obscure part of the processor that is invisible to antivirus apps Security researchers have ...

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...