A Symantec researcher was recently reported to have said that Microsoft Update, which is included with a component known as Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), might possibly be exploited by hackers to evade security measures and attack computers. BITS sprints in the background on a Windows computer as an asynchronous download service for patch updates. Elia Florio who is one of the researchers at Symantec’s security response team was quoted as saying, It’s a very nice component and if you consider that it supports HTTP and can be programmed via COM API, it’s the perfect tool to make Windows download anything you want. Unfortunately, this can also include malicious files. It is novel. Hack-ers are leveraging a component of the operating system itself to update their content. But the idea of bypassing firewalls isn’t new. Through this it gets clear that just spending more money to protect our PCs with latest and greatest security systems is not the standalone answer to the hacking trouble, rather we will have to spend the resources required to track hackers down and jail them at one with the damages caused by them. Read