The production of three different USB stick models from Sony has been halted according to a recent report by Tom Sanders at vnunet.com

This is related to the recent news about rootkits that were included in the the products which can pose a potential security risk. However, the company said that they halted the USM-128C, USM-256F and USM-512FL products because of modest sales rather than security concerns.

They also mentioned that they are investigating the security issues about these three products. They did not make a comment whether they will make a recall for these products.

Two years ago, Sony was also involved in a rootkit scandal.

Source: VNUNET.com