Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere 149
Orome1 writes "In a perhaps not wholly unexpected move, Symantec has advised the customers of its pcAnywhere remote control application to stop using it until patches for a slew of vulnerabilities are issued. If the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's internal network and have access to the encryption details, the pcAnywhere traffic — including exchanged user login credentials — could be intercepted and decoded. If the attackers get their hands on the cryptographic key they can launch remote control sessions and, thus, access to systems and sensitive data. If the cryptographic key itself is using Active Directory credentials, they can also carry out other malicious activities on the network."
Way ahead of you, Symantec (Score:5, Funny)
Most /.er's stopped using your products a long time ago.
Next up, Intel CEO admits "McAfee is just bloatware that doesn't actually do anything. To be honest, most of it just runs loops that eat up CPU, so people think it's doing something and want to buy a faster Intel CPU. It hasn't stopped an actual virus since the mid-90's."
Re:Way ahead of you, Symantec (Score:5, Funny)
t hasn't stopped an actual virus since the mid-90's."
I wouldn't say that, it seems to do a pretty good job shutting down Windows.
Re:Good Job Symantec (Score:5, Funny)
It only took you 6 years.
They would have gotten an email out sooner, but Norton was REALLY slowing their computers down.
Re:Who still uses PCAnywhere? (Score:3, Funny)
And that's where you went wrong. The correct procedure for any self respecting BOFH at this point would be:
Re:Finish that sentence! (Score:5, Funny)
...you might as well consider Ethernet cables to be inherently insecure...
Shh...don't let the people at monster cable know that. They might find a new source of revenue in "encrypted ethernet cables"