Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure has found rootkit-like features in a plug-and-play fingerprint reader marketed by Sony.
The discovery was made when F-Secure’s BlackLight scanner picked up hidden files on a system with the Sony Microvault USM-F fingerprint reader software.
In addition to the software that was packaged with the USB stick, F-Secure also tested the latest software version available from Sony and found the same hiding functionality.
“[We] feel that rootkit-like cloaking techniques are not the right way to go here,” Pehkonen said.
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