BMG Software on thousands of Nets

Security expert Dan Kaminsky estimates that 350,000 networks contain PCs with copy-protection software installed by music CDs sold by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. A controversy arose because the software employs rootkit techniques similar to those used by malicious attackers. In his research, Kaminsky asked the 3 million Domain Name System servers that are reachable by computers outside their networks to look up whether an address used by the software was in their caches.

Phishing reaches all-time high mark

The Anti-Phishing Working Group received a record 16,882 unique reports of phishing attacks in November, according to a report the group released this month. November's phishing attacks doubled the number of attacks recorded in November 2004, according to the report.

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