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Texas has added new charges, these citing use of MediaMax technology, against recording industry giant Sony-BMG Entertainment Bloggers’ latest question for the brass at Sony-BMG Entertainment has become, “Why didn’t the music giant act sooner?” The state of Texas sued Sony-BMG Entertainment on Monday, claiming the company has violated its recently enacted anti-spyware law. A vulnerability intelligence firm today reported a flaw in the popular Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) which could allow remote attackers to compromise a gaming console. Sony-BMG Entertainment has issued another mea culpa of sorts for its use of spyware-like technology on CD-Roms.

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The firestorm surrounding Sony-BMG Entertainment may finally be near its end, as the recording industry giant has agreed to settle lawsuits resulting from its inclusion of spyware-like technology on CDs. Lawsuits over Sony-BMG Entertainment's rootkit technology on CD-Roms are piling up. The man who first made public Sony-BMG Entertainment’s spyware-like CD-Roms had only one word at the top of his weblog Wednesday: “Victory!” Sony-BMG Music Entertainment's use of spyware techniques for copyright protection is only the latest example of a trend that will likely promote a “consumer backlash," industry experts have warned. Hands up if you own a smartphone and feel secure. If so, maybe you haven’t been following the upward trends in Bluetooth vulnerabilities, Symbian worms and ordinary theft. The Windows programming expert who first uncovered the Sony rootkit application has now said such technology never should be used – even if companies deem it beneficial for the user. Uninstalling Sony-BMG Entertainment’s spyware-like application from a PC could be more harmful than having downloaded it in the first place, a Princeton University professor warned on Tuesday. Sony-BMG Entertainment, the target of public outcry over spyware-like technology installed on 20 of the company’s CDs without end-user notification, pulled the application from its products this week. Nine vendors, including Dell and Motorola, have joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an organization focused on creating open standards for system security. What is it? DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, describing any number of methods that content providers enlist to try to exercise control over what you can do with a digital document. Recently Sony BMG released a CD protected by a “rootkit,” a tool often used by hackers/malware authors to hide their tracks on a system. Nearly all business PC users believe Sony's DRM copy protection to be a security threat, according to a new survey. Months after rumours circulated regarding possible flaws in some vendors' Bluetooth implementations, Nokia has confirmed that some of its mobile phones are indeed vulnerable to attack. Sony’s new memory sticks have riled the business world into banning them from use, Louise Murray asks why?