[pchelpers] News:Your Antivirus can be a Door for Hackers: iViZ "Green Cloud Security" Discovers New Vulnerabilities in AVG, Sophos, F-Secure etc.

12:15 EST Thursday, December 11, 2008

BANGALORE, India (Business Wire) -- iViZ, an information security
company that offers "Green Cloud Security", the world's only on-demand
penetration testing for applications, networks and compliance, has
announced that it has discovered new classes of vulnerabilities in many
popular commercial and open source antivirus software. These
vulnerabilities can potentially allow attackers to break into systems
using such antivirus software. 

Bala Girisaballa, Vice President, explains how hackers can target a
seemingly secure system and break into it by exploiting its antivirus
software. “An attacker first crafts an email with malicious payload and
sends it to the target user. When the email is scanned by the vulnerable
antivirus software it can either crash the antivirus software or execute
arbitrary code resulting in complete security bypass and remote system
compromise,” he added. 

More here:
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/BWIRE.20081211.20081211005857/GIStory/
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