{"id":335,"date":"2016-01-13T23:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2016-01-13T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:59:17","slug":"ridiculous-bug-in-popular-antivirus-allows-hackers-to-steal-all-your-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/ridiculous-bug-in-popular-antivirus-allows-hackers-to-steal-all-your-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you have installed Trend Micro&#8217;s Antivirus on your Windows computer, then Beware.<\/p>\n<p>Your computer can be remotely hijacked, or infected with any malware by even through a website \u2013 Thanks to a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Security Software.<\/p>\n<p>The Popular antivirus maker and security firm Trend Micro has released an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.trendmicro.com\/information-on-reported-vulnerabilities-in-trend-micro-password-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">emergency patch<\/a> to fix critical flaws in its anti-virus product that allow hackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely as well as steal your saved password from <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/11\/password-manager-hacked.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Password Manager<\/a> built into its AntiVirus program.<\/p>\n<p>The password management tool that comes bundled with its main antivirus is used to store passwords by users and works exactly like any other password manager application.<\/p>\n<h3><\/b><b>Even Websites Can Hack Into Your Computer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2014\/07\/project-zero-team-of-star-hackers-hired.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s Project Zero<\/a> security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/google-security-research\/issues\/detail?id=693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered<\/a> the remote code execution flaw in Trend Micro Antivirus Password Manager component, allowing hackers to steal users\u2019 passwords.<\/p>\n<p><i>In short, once compromised, all your accounts passwords are gone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/01\/free-antivirus-hacking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the entire article&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/01\/free-antivirus-hacking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords |\u00a0The Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords If you have installed Trend Micro&#8217;s Antivirus on your Windows computer, then Beware. Your computer can be remotely hijacked, or infected with any malware by even through a website \u2013 Thanks to a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Security Software. The Popular antivirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}