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Is McAfee.com Insecure?

Mar 29, 2011
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The YGN Ethical Hacker Group has publicly disclosed that Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) McAfee security division may have multiple security problems with its website.

The group claims that McAfee.com is at risk from Cross Site Scripting (XSS) as well as Information Disclosure issues. The YGN Ethical Hacker Group also claims that they alerted McAfee to the issues back in February.

McAfee notes that customers need not worry.

“McAfee is aware of these vulnerabilities and we are working to fix them,” McAfee noted in a statement sent to InternetNews.com. “It is important to note that these vulnerabilities do not expose any of McAfee’s customer, partner or corporate information. Additionally, we have not seen any malicious exploitation of the vulnerabilities.”


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