The flaw found in SecurityCenter up to version 6.0, which includes
component products such as VirusScan, Personal Firewall Plus and
Spamkiller, could enable hackers to gain control of computers that
visit rogue websites.
McAfee has acknowledged the threat and has said that it will send out a
security patch to users by today at the latest but claims that it has
not received any notifications of a hacking occurrence from its user
base.
eEye, which rates the latest McAfee vulnerability as critical, has recently found flaws in both McAfee and Symantec products.
In July, eEye revealed a flaw in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator which is
used to manage security software on millions of PCs at the firm's
corporate and government client sites, including the US Department of
Defence. In May, Symantec was embarrassed when eEye revealed a serious
vulnerability in enterprise security products Symantec Client Security
and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition.
eEye says I spy a flaw in McAfee
eEye Digital Security, the security company which specialises in finding flaws in the products of other security companies, has been at it again. This time the object of attention is SecurityCenter, the flagship consumer product of anti-virus behemoth McAfee, which was under eEye's microscope only last month.
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Stan Beer co-founded iTWire in 2005. With 25 years of experience working in Australian technology media, Beer has published articles in most of the IT publications that have mattered, including the AFR, The Australian, SMH, The Age, as well as a multitude of trade publications.
