ソフトウェアのコピー防止のためにUSBドングルなどのプロテクションハードウェアが使われることがあります。ウィキメディア財団でソフトウェアエンジニアとして働いているドミトリー・ブラント氏は40年前に使われていたコピー防止ドングルの解除に ...

米国の著名なプログラマーであり、ライターであるMark Russinovich氏(Microsoft Press刊の「Inside Windows 2000」などの執筆で知られる)が執筆した、10月31日付のBlogからすべては始まった。氏のBlogによると、Sony BMGのCopy Protected CDが、専用プレーヤーといっしょに「rootkit ...

Mark Russinovich couldn’t understand how the rootkit had sneaked onto his system. An expert on the internals of the Windows operating system, he is careful when it comes to computer security and ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...

A computer security firm says it has discovered the first virus that uses music publisher Sony BMG's controversial CD copy-protection software to hide on PCs and wreak havoc. Under a subject line ...

Floppy disks have been widely used as magnetic disks for personal computers since around 1980, and were used as recording media until optical disk drives such as CDs and DVDs became the standard in ...

After two weeks of relentless criticism over its XCP copy protection software, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is pulling CDs that contain the software from store shelves. The company is also planning to ...

A federal judge in New York granted final approval Monday to a settlement by Sony BMG Music Entertainment of several class-action lawsuits over the use of copy-protection software on its compact discs ...