McAfee SecurityCenter security patch

Security firm McAfee has just had to overcome a new security issue in SecurityCenter software.

The product developer said that successfully exploiting a security error said that an attacker could gain complete remote control of the faulty systems. The method to exploit this security bug is still the most popular method - tricking users into clicking on a malicious link on a website.

The newly released security bug affects a range of SecurityCenter versions from 4.3 to 6.0.22. To fix this security issue, McAfee recommends that users upgrade to SecurityCenter version 7.0. If users still want to use the old version, they will have to install additional patches that will be released today (August 2). Particularly, SecurityCenter versions for businesses are not affected by the above security error.

SecurityCenter is a technology widely used in McAfee products, from VirusScan to Total Protection and Internet Security Suite. SecurityCenter is designed to provide users with security information on their systems with a single click. This technology is currently gaining a lot of attention from users to businesses.

" SecurityCenter is a consumer product, so the level of protection is not as high as that of enterprise networks ," said Mike Puterbaugh, spokesman for eEye Digital Security. determined. eEye is the company that discovered and reported a security error for McAfee.

eEye puts this security error to an extremely dangerous level because it can be exploited to execute remote code. However, McAfee only ranked on average because to successfully exploit it requires user intervention.

However, after users upgraded to SecurityCenter 7.0, some users complained about the upgrade version not compatible with Microsoft ActiveSync. McAfee is currently considering this issue.

Thus, within two days, McAfee had to continuously fix two security flaws in its products. And both security errors are detected by eEye Digital Security. Yesterday, McAfee had to fix security flaws in a wide range of products.

Hoang Dun