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 ...

"All it takes is the shift key," Alex Halderman GS said, describing his discovery of a way to bypass the copy-prevention technique on SunnComm Technologies' new copy-protection for audio CDs on PCs.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment Music has agreed to settle charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission related to the company’s inclusion of problematic copy-protection software in music CDs, the FTC ...