Saturday, February 21, 2009

What's up with the Antivirus vendors?

So, what have we had....4 large and very popular antivirus vendors get hit with various forms of insecurities in their websites. From what I've read, Kaspersky Labs, F-Secure, Bitdefender and Symantec have had recent issues. Some of these issues involved various forms of information disclosure. If we can't trust the guys we pay to protect us from viruses, worms, trojans, etc. to keep their own house in order, who can we trust?

We'll see if any of these data disclosures really mean anything, or will it just float down the stream into the bit bucket.

2 comments:

  1. They didn’t manage to exploit or disclose anything from the BitDefender website.

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  2. Not according to this website article. From reading this there are two different instances of data disclosure. Neither one sounds very good to me.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/bitdefender_website_breach/

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