The Security Mentor

2005 will stick in our memories as the year we woke up to the threat from "legitimate" companies.

Sony shipped software on some music CDs that created blind spots where your computer couldn't see certain files. That's bad in itself but worse yet creates an opening for bad guys to use, which of course they did.

This wasn't a freak accident either. Computers are machines for reading, changing and copying information. A company that wants to prevent computers from copying their CDs and DVDs needs to cripple the computer one way or another. Expect more stories like the Sony story.