According to a news published at Ars Technica, Sony did it again: another rootkit was identified in a Sony product: Micro Vault USM-F thumb drive. The presence of the rootkit was first discovered by F-Secure, and was confirmed by Aditya Kapoor and Seth Purdy, researchers at McAfee, and posted on their blog.
As reported at Ars Technica, the software installed to use the fingerprint recognition feature creates a security risk similar (not identical) to the one created by the Sony BMG rootkit.
When the original Sony rootkit scandal hit, a Sony executive originally dismissed it by saying that "most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
