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• Security 27 Feb 09:57

  Stuxnet "0.5" hit Iran as early as 2007

  Insecurity experts at Symantec have found a version of the Stuxnet virus that was attacking Iran's nuclear program in November 2007 - years earlier than previously thought.
• Security 07 Feb 09:05

  Microsoft and Symantec strangle botnet

  Microsoft and Symantec have disrupted a global cybercrime operation by shutting down servers that controlled the Bamital botnet.
• Security 30 Jan 09:27

  Grim DNS bug still alive and well

  What is more alarming is the names who have said they are not not deploying DNSSEC read like a Who's Who of American industry. Fifth Third Bancorp, Bank of America, Cardinal Health, Charles Schwab, Delta Air Lines, Disney, eBay, Target, WellPoint Wells Fargo, Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM and Symantec h
• Security 30 Nov 14:31

  Microsoft's security software fails certification

  AV-Test ran a parallel test on business security products from F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Webroot.
• Security 05 Nov 13:03

  Anonymous sets web alight in 5 November protests

  ZDNET's Violet Blue has compiled the companies allegedly victim to hacks, which includes ImageShack and Paypal, steel mining company Arcelor Mittal, the Greek City website, and the Ghana Consulate website, as well as leaking VMware's ESX Server Kernel source code.
• Mobile 27 Jul 11:04

  Android App battery app gives you a Russian bride

  Insecurity outfit Symantec has warned that an Android mobile application which claims to save your phones power, actually serves up a Russian bride site instead.
• Hardware 05 Jun 08:05

  Intel says open source fundamental to its cloud growth

  Intel, through its subsidiary McAfee and with other companies like Symantec and Microsoft are working to create ubiquitous encryption. In a cloud environment data centers need securing and better than the best of class enterprise security. The system has to be open, and based on standards.
• Security 28 May 16:52

  'Flame' cyber attack could be most sophisticated ever

  Symantec has warned of a “highly sophisticated” threat, which its Security Response Team has claimed is on par with the Stuxnet and Duqu viruses.
• Security 03 May 09:23

  Mozilla wades into CISPA

  CISPA's official supporters include Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Oracle and Symantec.
• Security 02 May 10:50

  Cyber criminals take $10,000 a day from Apple users

  The cyber criminals who hit on the wizard wheeze of targeting the faith based security system of Apple into a botnet are coining in $10,000 a day, according to anti-virus experts at Symantec.
• Security 27 Mar 15:20

  Symantec divorces Huawei for fear of US blowback

  Due to one of those rare moments where doing business with China is detrimental to your bottom line, Symantec has exited its joint-venture with Huawei, the Chinese networking and telecommunications giant, for fears of being shelved in the security technology race in the US.
• Business 21 Mar 08:46

  Microsoft is one of the world's most ethical companies

  According to The Ethisphere Institute, Microsoft is one of the 145 most ethical companies followed by Adobe, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Teradata, and Wipro.
• Security 05 Mar 08:26

  Hackers are winning

  James Bidzos, CEO of VeriSign, admitted his outfit had lost data to hackers in 2010 and Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec, also admitted that source code from the 2006 version of its program for gaining remote access to desktop computers had been stolen and published.
• Security 07 Feb 17:42

  Symantec's PCAnywhere becomes PCEverywhere

  A hacker affiliatedwith Anonymous has posted the PCAnywhere source code after failing to wrangle fifty grand from Symantec.
• Security 07 Feb 09:52

  Mutating Android trojan changes form whenever it's downloaded

  In what could be an interesting case for Dr Who, Symantec has warned of a mutating Android trojan.
• Security 03 Feb 11:13

  Verisign hacked

  Symantec, which bought Verisign's digital certificate arm in early 2010, said there was "no evidence" it was affected by the breach.
• Security 31 Jan 09:54

  Symantec says pcAnywhere is now secure

  Symantec has given its users the all clear to run its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product.
• Security 27 Jan 09:16

  Anti-virus wars start up again

  Still, imagine our surprise, when Reuters ran a story this morning where McAfee rejected a claim that several large corporate customers had recently switched over to using products from rival Symantec.

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