Security vendor, Symantec, has hired former CA Technologies managing director, Brenton Smith, to head up its cloud business.

The Symantec subsidiary has been rebranded as Symantec.cloud to push the company’s cloud message loud and clear

Spammers are people too...apparently. They have families and want to take a vacation to spend quality time with them over the traditional holiday break just like everyone else. Or, at least that is the way that it appears if you follow the trends in spam traffic.

After a holiday hiatus, spammers have returned to ply their trade boosting bogus products, security researchers said today.

Targeted attacks via fraudulent and dangerous e-mail are on the rise, according to a Symantec report published today. These attacks are typically aimed at corporative executives, to fool them into opening malicious attachments or links so the perpetrators can take control of desktop computers.

A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer security experts have noticed that today's computer attacks are more malicious than the original computer security threat.

Symantec’s global CEO has predicted 15 per cent of its business revenue will derive from software-as-a-service (SaaS) within five years.

Symantec is looking to get partners on-board software-as-a-service by revamping its global Hosted Services channel program.