Sony faces renewed security woes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6968234.stm
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The latest vulnerability affects Sony's MicroVault USB sticks with fingerprint readers.

Software packaged with the memory sticks creates a hidden directory on a computer's hard drive according to researchers at F-secure.

The software, known as a "rootkit", could allow a hacker to infect a computer as any files stored on the hidden directory would not only invisible to the user, but also from some virus scanners and security software.

F-secure said they had alerted the electronics firm to the flaw.

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According to F-Secure, the affected MicroVault software is an older product and is being phased out.

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