Tag: Symantec

Symantec Confirms Norton Antivirus Source Code Leak
Symantec has confirmed the authenticity of a segment of Norton AntiVirus 2006 source code...
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Anonymous Releases Symantec Code From 2006, Deface Web Sites
Anonymous continues its promise of attacking a new Web site every Friday as part of its "Fuck FBI Friday" campaign. The victims this week are New York City Ironworks,...
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Microsoft Adds Tenth Member to Board
Microsoft Corp. today announced that John W. Thompson, chief executive officer of privately held Virtual Instruments and former chairman and CEO of Symantec Corp., was appointed to...
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Symantec Confirms Extortion Attempt
Hackers using the Twitter Handle @YamaTouigh have been tweeting about...
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Anonymous’ Celebration Over pcAnywhere Shortlived?
Last week, Symantec Corp. issued an announcement that all users of their pcAnywhere software should disable i...
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pcAnywhere Compromised: Disable Immediately!
On January 4, Anonymous tweeted that an Indian hacker group had posted Symantec source code to Pastebin. Symantec Norton Antivirus source co...
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Symantec Acquires LiveOffice
Symantec announced that it has acquired cloud-based archiving service LiveOffice for $115 million to extend a new " intelligent information...
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Hacker “Yama Tough” To Release Norton Antivirus Source Code?
A Hacker that goes by "Yama Tough" has been tweeting bout Symantec and its Norton antivirus product. YamaTough said on Twitter that he (or she) plans to release the full source co...
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100,000 Apps Enable Leakage of Facebook Profile Info, According to Symantec
Security firm Symantec released a report indicating that there are about 100,000 Facebook apps that accidentally enable the leakage of Facebook user info to third-parties like adve...
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Royal Wedding Brings Out the Cyber Criminals
Cyber criminals are exploiting the world's fascination with the British Royal Wedding, which is taking place on Friday. They're using the attention the event is getting to bolster...
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One Out Of Five Facebook Users May Be Exposed To Malware
However careful you've been when using Facebook up until now, it may be time to grow even more cautious.  New stats from BitDefender indicate that at least one out of five...
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Location-Based Services Too New to Know How They’ll Be Abused
Last week, Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence Sr. Analyst Paul Wood shared some predictions for online threats in the coming year with...
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Threats to Expect in Mobile, Social, Location and Email in 2011
It's getting late in the year, and it's about time to start looking forward to 2011. While we can speculate about a great many topics, few trends are going to be as important to...
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How Will Bit.ly Work with Twitter’s Link Wrapping?
Besides hinting at new features and talking about user stats, Twitter also made a couple announcements this week. One is that all Twitter apps use...
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