{"id":28432,"date":"2012-02-23T22:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=28432"},"modified":"2012-02-24T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:42:43","slug":"200000-pcanywhere-users-still-vunerable-to-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/200000-pcanywhere-users-still-vunerable-to-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"200,000 pcAnywhere Users STILL Vunerable to Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pcAnywhere.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pcAnywhere\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28455\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Despite warnings from Symantec, thousands of pcAnywhere users have failed to apply a critical security patch.<\/h3>\n<p>Approximately 1 month ago, Symantec began advising users of their pcAnywhere product to disable the software until have had the opportunity to apply their most recent security patch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The advice&#8230;was prompted by a 2006 leak of its source code and the much more recent involvement of Anonymous, the loosely-organized group of hackers whose latest exploit was to cripple several government websites&#8230;Symantec admitted its own network had been breached in 2006&#8230;it again said source code for several of its products, including pcAnywhere, had been stolen at that time.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9223725\/Threatened_by_Anonymous_Symantec_tells_users_to_pull_pcAnywhere_s_plug?taxonomyId=17&#038;pageNumber=1\" target=\"_blank\">ComputerWorld<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Attackers who obtain the software&#8217;s cryptographic key can also launch unauthorized remote control sessions on pcAnywhere-equipped PCs, the company added. 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