{"id":1739,"date":"2012-02-02T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2012-02-02T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:56:10","slug":"update-symantec-releases-patch-for-pcanywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/2012\/02\/02\/update-symantec-releases-patch-for-pcanywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Symantec Releases Patch for pcAnywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Symantec said it was unable to predict when it would complete its patching of pcAnywhere, citing the unpredictability of its investigation and the creation of the necessary fixes.\u00a0 However, they have now released an update that addresses the security issues we reported earlier this week.\u00a0 We therefore will not be implementing an inbound filter to 5631\/TCP, 5632\/UDP on Sunday 2\/5 as previously mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The updates can be manually downloaded from Symantec&#8217;s website, or customers can use pcAnywhere&#8217;s built-in updating service to retrieve and install the patches.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/business\/support\/index?page=content&amp;id=TECH179960\">http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/business\/support\/index?page=content&amp;id=TECH179960<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modena also confirmed that customers running versions of pcAnywhere prior to version 12.0 will be offered a free upgrade to 12.5.\u00a0 &#8220;If requested, Symantec will honor an update to version 12.5 for the customer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<\/p>\n<p>-IRT<\/p>\n<p>Information Security Incident Response Team, Information Services &amp; Technology<br \/>\nBoston University<br \/>\nT(617)358-1100<br \/>\nF(617)353-6260<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:irt@bu.edu\">irt@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Symantec said it was unable to predict when it would complete its patching of pcAnywhere, citing the unpredictability of its investigation and the creation of the necessary fixes.\u00a0 However, they have now released an update that addresses the security issues we reported earlier this week.\u00a0 We therefore will not be implementing an inbound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}