[Discuss] [OT] Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets'

[sronan at panix.com (Stephen Ronan)]

From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets'
Date: June 29, 2016 at 11:27:40 AM EDT
To: nnsquad at nnsquad.org


Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets'

http://fortune.com/2016/06/29/symantec-norton-vulnerability/

  	Google's "project zero" team, a group of security analysts
 	tasked with hunting for computer bugs, discovered a heap of
 	critical vulnerabilities in Symantec and Norton security
 	products.  The flaws allow hackers to completely compromise
 	people's machines simply by sending them malicious
 	self-replicating code through unopened emails or un-clicked
 	links.  The vulnerabilities affect millions of people who run
 	the company's endpoint security and antivirus software, rather
 	ironically to protect their devices.  Indeed, the flaws
 	rendered all 17 enterprise products (Symantec brand) and eight
 	consumer and small business products (Norton brand) open to
 	attack.

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--Lauren--