Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere
Symantec has advised customers to stop using one of its products, pcAnywhere, advising that the remote access software carries increased securiy risk after its blueprints were recently stolen.
The IT security vendor last week confirmed that a 2006 theft of its product source codes put customers at risk of an attack. Several other products including Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton Utilities and Norton GoBack also had its blueprints stolen.
In a whitepaper released Wednesday, Symantec asked customers to temporarily discontinue usage of pcAnywhere, until it releases a software update to mitigate the risk of an attack. Symantec said malicious hackers who have access to the source code have an "increased ability" to identify vulnerabilities and build new exploits, and added that customers that do not follow general security best practices are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks which can reveal authentication and session information.
