Anti-virus Vendor, Er, Hacked. Serves Up, Er, Viruses

The Japanese arm of antivirus vendor Trend Micro has announced its website had been hacked and its pages modified to service up viruses. In other words, if someone had visited their website chances are they'd have picked up a virus.

Not the sort of thing you expect from an antivirus manufacturer, and they're not being very forthcoming about it, either. While the company has announced that some of their website pages are found to be modified from March 9th to 12th, this is so far only in Japanese, according to asiajin. And that was yesterday. Nothing on their U.S. website yet.

Gen Kanai suggests it was because the company is using Windows 2000, and rips into TrendMicro both for the length of the breach and the lack of transparency: "If a security services/software firm can't keep their own web servers secured, and left their own hacked website up for 3 days, there's no logical reason to expect that their own security services are any better."

Not very reassuring. I've often recommended HouseCall but until this is sorted out and Trend Micro comes clean about this, I'm steering clear.

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