Sony: The Rootkit Company

Oh.. you Sony fans (I'm kidding) are going to love this one.

Another rootkit fiasco was washed up on Sony's shores once again. This time it's coming from the 'Micro Vault flash drive' that comes with finger print verification. It comes in the form of a driver that is installed to hide the finger print verification "sensitive files" in Windows file system stack.

The problem is that it will hide its self in ANY directory the software is run from, so malware could easily move to a convenient directory, or hide within the default program directory itself. And if that's the case, no anti-malware would be able to detect it.

Sony is pointing the finger at the company who created the software, a Taiwanese company called 'FineArt'. But Sony should have known what they're putting their name on, considering some of the other rootkit issues they've had.

Another Sony rootkit worms its way to the surface [Arstechnica via Crunchgear]

Transcend's Fingerprint Security Flash Drives

In the never ending story of 'who's got a better flash drive', Transcend introduces the 'Jetflash' 220 (top). The 220 brings fingerprint scanning and 256-bit AES encryption, a feature that is very cool and beats the software based security that most flash drives come with. It comes with a max capacity of 8GB for ¥17,800 or (about $149).

Or you could go with Transcend's other flashdrive, the 'JetFlash V35' which has the same memory capacity but no fingerprint security for ¥16,800 or (about $141). Both are available in Japan is month and soon, the world!!!!

Hit the jump to read more. Have your translators ready. [Impress via Engadget]