Source Code is Stolen By Hackers
By Luciana on March 5, 2010 | Computer Security, McAfee, hackers, source code
George Kurtz, McAfee's chief technology officer, announced about the attack against software configuration management products. According to security vendor McAfee, which released a report, in some of these attacks software source code was accessed by hackers.
These attacks were targeted to company engineers and technical staff. It was done by malicious software. According to Kurtz, source code management systems were accessed and code was downloaded outside of company firewalls.
"These systems are designed so you can have multiple people around the world working on them. That often gives the bad guys several ways to get into the code. To make matters worse, source code management systems "are underprotected and not very well monitored," claimed Kurtz.
In conclusion, companies should be more concerned about their source codes security.
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