{"id":115,"date":"2006-01-15T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T00:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=115"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T01:33:31","slug":"symantec-caught-using-rootkit-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/symantec-caught-using-rootkit-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec caught using rootkit technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security vendor Symantec has admitted to using a rootkit-like technology in its Norton SystemWorks appliction. The company admitted in a security advisory that the technology hides a directory from the user and the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Files in the directory might not be scanned during scheduled or manual virus scans. This could potentially provide a location for an attacker to hide a malicious file on a computer,&#8221; the vendor stated.<\/p>\n<p>The firm emphasised that it is not aware of any attempts by hackers or worm authors to exploit the feature. Symantec credited fellow security vendor F-Secure and software developer Mark Russinovich with finding the vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security vendor Symantec has admitted to using a rootkit-like technology in its Norton SystemWorks appliction. The company admitted in a security advisory that the technology hides a directory from the user and the operating system. &#8220;Files in the directory might not be scanned during scheduled or manual virus scans. This could potentially provide a location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}