Thursday, August 03, 2006

McAfee Programs may Explose Data

A report:

Consumer versions of McAfee Inc's leading software for securing PC'c is susceptible to a flaw that can expose passwords and other sensitive information stored on personal computer.

The vulnerability affects many of McAfee's most popular consumer products, including its Ineternet Security Suite, SpamKiller, Privacy Service and Virus Scan Plus titles...

Maiffret(Chief Hacking Officer) said that thaey have found a way to connect to PCs running the flawed McAfee products over the internet and make them run code of his choosing. The flaw, if exploited, would make it possible for a criminal to track bank account numbers, and access, modify and delete sensitive files and do other damage on machine running the McAfee products..

The News : [Thursday 3rd August]

3 comments:

Mohamed Ihsan said...

Hi Mobin, I din't know that you are a blogger....

Good, keep it up!

Aneel Ansari said...

oh! really

I had no idea about that. good work mobin.

It would be if you provide soem reference or relative link regarding this, so we can read out the whole article and this would became authentic, indeed.

Anyways keep this up.

mobinkhan said...

this is what i read in the news paper sorry for that i really cant get refernce for you ... but in future i really keep in mind that.


thanks..