Threat: Google Security Experts have found a security flaw in Symantec AV products. The flaw affects all their AV software from the Norton Home version to their Enterprise Endpoint Protection software. They are quoted as saying, “It’s as bad as it gets!”
Risk: Hackers can take advantage of the flaw without any user interaction and access the most trusted portion of the Operating System. At this level they can do anything they want.
Real World Scenarios: You connect to a Wi-Fi network and someone else on that network remotely installs malware like a key logger on your machine without you ever knowing. You receive an email and without clicking on anything you become infected with a Trojan. This Trojan can allow hackers to come back at a later time and do anything they want.
Mitigation: Symantec has released a patches for this flaw. We recommend you patch affected systems as soon as possible.
More Info:
Symantec Security Bulleting with Updates
PC Magazine Article
