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 ...

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… ...

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, ...