• Someone hacked together a system showing how Sony could inform infected users about the rootkit using the notification structure already built into their XCP media player.
  • Sony's XCP DRM rootkit is getting a lot of press and they are back- tracking on that one, but they are still actively propagating the SunComm MediaMax DRM software on enhanced CDs, which will install itself and possibly run, even if the user declines the EULA.
  • F-Secure informed Sony of the securiy risks inherent in its rootkit on 2005-OCT-04, but Sony BMG did not act to correct the problem until after Mark Russinovich's blog entry went live.