Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Hacker Group Discloses Vulnerability on McAfee Webstite

Here's an interesting story, over the weekend the YGN Ethical Hacker Group publicly disclosed a vulnerability on the mcafee.com website. It's nothing to panic about if you are a customer of Network Associates or McAfee, however it is interesting that it is taking so long for McAfee to address the issue.

YGN originally reported the discovery to McAfee almost two months ago, and as of Sunday it had not been fully addressed. The vulnerability could be exploited to "spoof" the mcafee.com domain.

If you use McAfee products, I don't recommend changing anything, just be careful and don't click on any links you receive that purport to go to the mcafee.com website.

There's a good article on this on CNET. Interesting reading if you have some time.