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  • Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit

                      
    		   
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    wraggster
    Published on July 30th, 2012 20:25
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    It has been discovered that the Uplay system Ubisoft uses to both check a game is legal and offer up gaming achievements, multiplayer, and additional content, actually contains a rootkit. The discovery was made by Tavis Ormandy, an information security engineer at Google, when he installed Assassin's Creed: Revelations on his laptop. He noticed that during the installation Uplay installed a browser plug-in that allows any website to gain access to your machine through a backdoor and take control of it.The plug-in can be classed as a rootkit because it is thought to allow continued privileged access to a machine without a user's consent."
    Update: Ubisoft has released a statement saying it has issued a forced patch to correct the flaw in the browser plug-in for the Uplay PC application.
    http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...lude-a-rootkit
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit started by wraggster View original post
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