{"id":489,"date":"2005-11-11T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/489"},"modified":"2005-11-11T21:05:03","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T21:05:03","slug":"and-the-first-osx-trojan-in-the-wild-goes-to-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/489","title":{"rendered":"And the first OSX Trojan in the wild goes  to&#8230; Sony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year there was a bunch of hoopla about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/news\/pr40.asp\">&#8220;first Mac OS X Trojan Horse&#8221;<\/a>, a claim that was quickly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/mac\/0,2125,63000,00.html\">dismissed<\/a> as being a non-issue since it was just a proof of concept and wasn&#8217;t found in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Now it looks like we may have the first real Trojan for OS X found in the wild&#8230; being distributed by Sony. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/#tip.2005.11.10.sony\">tip published in Macintouch<\/a> (and reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/11\/sony_bmg_mac_drm\/\">The Register<\/a>), Sony BMG is is including Mac-aware DRM software from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunncomm.com\/Brochure\/\">Sunncomm<\/a> in their new release of Imogen Heap&#8217;s CD <i>Speak for Yourself<\/i>. The application, innocuously called <i>Start.app<\/i>, installs two <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/Darwin\/Conceptual\/KEXTConcept\/KEXTConceptAbout\/about_kexts.html\">kernel extensions<\/a> that implement Suncomm&#8217;s DRM scheme.<\/p>\n<p>In their defense (legal, if not moral) the software does pop up an End User License Agreement that tells you what they&#8217;re going to do \u2014 and I&#8217;m sure you all read those EULAs in their entirety before clicking <i>OK<\/i>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year there was a bunch of hoopla about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/news\/pr40.asp\">&#8220;first Mac OS X Trojan Horse&#8221;<\/a>, a claim that was quickly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/mac\/0,2125,63000,00.html\">dismissed<\/a> as being a non-issue since it was just a proof of concept and wasn&#8217;t found in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Now it looks like we may have the first real Trojan for OS X found in the wild&#8230; being distributed by Sony. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/#tip.2005.11.10.sony\">tip published in Macintouch<\/a> (and reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/11\/sony_bmg_mac_drm\/\">The Register<\/a>), Sony BMG is is including Mac-aware DRM software from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunncomm.com\/Brochure\/\">Sunncomm<\/a> in their new release of Imogen Heap&#8217;s CD <i>Speak for Yourself<\/i>. The application, innocuously called <i>Start.app<\/i>, installs two <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/Darwin\/Conceptual\/KEXTConcept\/KEXTConceptAbout\/about_kexts.html\">kernel extensions<\/a> that implement Suncomm&#8217;s DRM scheme.<\/p>\n<p>In their defense (legal, if not moral) the software does pop up an End User License Agreement that tells you what they&#8217;re going to do \u2014 and I&#8217;m sure you all read those EULAs in their entirety before clicking <i>OK<\/i>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}