The IT security researchers at F-Secure have identified a critical set of vulnerabilities within Barco’s Clickshare product – a wireless presentation system that could allow attackers to access crucial information during presentations and also steal sensitive information such as passwords.
Furthermore, by exploiting these vulnerabilities attackers could also install backdoors and other forms of malware on targeted devices.
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While the common user may not have much to lose among the presentations they make and hence not relate, the main users of the software such as investors and companies possess data that is highly confidential. Losing it to the public or a company can be disastrous which shows the seriousness of the flaw at hand.
This is evident from stats released by Futuresource Consulting which indicate that about 40% of Fortune 1000 companies are customers of Clickshare.
A demonstration of Clickshare
Talking about the reason they randomly decided to test Clickshare, Dmitry Janushkevich who’s a senior security consultant at F-Secure explained that,
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