Security compromised at security companies -- during Cyber Security Month

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/08/security-compromised-at-security-companies-during-cyber-security-month/

FoxNews.com
October 08, 2013

Now who do you trust?

To celebrate the beginning of National Cyber Security Month, hackers have 
turned up the heat on the security companies themselves.

On Tuesday morning, hackers briefly compromised the website of AVG, the 
maker of one of the world’s most popular free anti-virus products, as well 
as fellow software firm Avira. Meanwhile, the servers of popular 
secure-networking company PureVPN were pilfered by pirates last week -- 
leaving digital egg on the faces of all firms involved.

"There is no full security” was the message greeting visitors to the 
AVG.com website Tuesday morning, accompanied by a Palestinian national 
anthem and an anti-Israel screed by a group calling itself KDMS. “We can 
catch you!”

The anti-virus companies AVG and Avira themselves weren’t hacked, but 
rather the underlying DNS system that directs Internet traffic, as though 
the Internet phone number for the website were changed in a giant digital 
phonebook. It's nonetheless embarrassing, wrote security expert Graham 
Cluley.

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