Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software

[Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Does anyone actually know at this point how Epsilon was hacked? 

All we know is this:

Late last week, Epsilon detected that customer information of a subset of Epsilon's email clients had been exposed by 
an unauthorized entry into its email system. The affected clients represent approximately 2% of Epsilon's total client 
base. Since the discovery of the unauthorized entry, rigorous internal and external reviews continue to confirm that 
only email addresses and/or names were compromised.
http://tinyurl.com/3zr8o6c



Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:48 AM
To: FunSec
Subject: [funsec] Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software

".... Bradley Antis, vice president of technical strategy at Orange,Calif.-based M86 Security, [siad] the 15 software 
vulnerabilities thatwere most often exploited in the second half of 2010 could have been stopped dead in their tracks - 
all already had been patched by theirvendors.... The vulnerabilities continued to spread only because countless PC 
users didn't bother to update their software, leaving enough unpatched machines on the Internet to allow the exploits 
to thrive."

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/best-way-avoid-virus-infection-update-software-0685/

Apparently, Epsilon did not get the memo.

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