Filed under: Peripherals
While everybody was busy with that BioShock "rootkit" false alarm -- and subsequently busy playing BioShock -- the folks at F-Secure were uncovering a new, legitimate rootkit problem in the software packaged with Sony's MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader drives. It took Sony a little while to respond, but now the company says it has launched an investigation into the software, which was developed by a third-party, and will offer a fix by mid-September. The drives models had already been discontinued, though you can still pick them
