Featured comment by Southern:
"Are all of you completely out of whack? This is corporate extortion and shouldn't really be encouraged. Furthermore, when you're negotiating for stole..." More »
According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday, and confirmed by the company, a group of hackers attempted to extort £30,000 from Symantec in exchange for not releasing its stolen PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus source code.
Featured comment by Southern:
"According to the emails posted, the person claiming to be from Symantec was identified as an FBI agent and the sort of baits he used weren't particul..." More »
Symantec’s Android scaremongering last week wasn’t all that justified it seems. Although the 13 apps that it pinpointed as malware aren’t all that great, it appears they’re actually slightly less vicious adware – something Windows users are horribly familiar with.
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Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
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Security specialist Symantec has asked users of its remote desktop management tool PCAnywhere to stop using it, while it works on a fix for security issue.
A hacking team going under the excellent name of "The Lords of Dharmaraja" claims to have accessed confidential Symantec servers and downloaded the source code for its Norton Antivirus flagship product. And it'll be dumping the 1.7GB file online tomorrow.
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