symantec in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: Symantec mobility and security roundtable at Flying Fish
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  IN PICTURES: Symantec Partner Engage 2011, Day 2
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  IN PICTURES: Symantec Partner Engage 2011, Day 1
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  In pictures: Symantec partners work and play in Asia-Pacific

• Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate"

  By Ellen Messmer | 08 February, 2012 06:29

  Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006.

• Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 February, 2012 06:12

  Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

• Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere

  By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 18:17

  Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.

• Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 February, 2012 00:26

  Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5.

• Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download

  By Lucian Constantin | 03 February, 2012 22:52

  Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection.

• VeriSign admits multiple hacks in 2010, keeps details under wraps

  By Gregg Keizer | 03 February, 2012 07:56

  VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.

• Symantec recants Android malware claims

  By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2012 08:03

  Symantec has backtracked from assertions last week that 13 Android apps distributed by Google's Android Market were malicious, and now says that the code in question comes from an aggressive ad network that provides revenue to the smartphone programs.

• Symantec drops don't-use advice, gives pcAnywhere all-clear

  By Gregg Keizer | 01 February, 2012 08:20

  Symantec has retracted its don't-use-pcAnywhere recommendation to owners of the remote access software.

• PROFILE: From the ground up

  By Julia Talevski | 07 November, 2011 09:39

  Insentra's Ronnie Altit talks about some of the challenges with starting a business and the importance of building trusted relationships with partners

• Symantec: Building on specialisation

  By Patrick Budmar | 29 July, 2011 08:41

  ARN caught up with Symantec Pacific region vice-president and managing director, Craig Scroggie, during Symantec Partner Engage 2011 to talk about the security vendor’s channel strategy, partners specialising and the current security landscape.

• Channel Choice: Vendor Of the Year -Symantec

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 15:56

  Symantec has had a busy year. In April, at its partner conference in Senza, China, the vendor outlined a strategy that involved significant changes to its partner program. As yet, we still don’t know all the details of these changes.

• SaaS, not shopping, is focus of Symantec's new CEO

  By Robert McMillan | 26 June, 2009 09:32

  CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an aspiring enterprise infrastructure vendor.

• PDF files most trusted...and most targeted

  By Tony Bradley | 09 March, 2011 06:06

  PDF files are one of the most common, and most trusted document formats out there. However, that trust, combined with the cross-platform use of PDFs makes the Adobe file format one of the most targeted and exploited by malicious attacks as well.

• Free vs. fee: Free, paid antivirus programs

  By Nick Mediati | 30 November, 2010 13:45

  Depending on whom you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good investment or a total ripoff. In reality, neither viewpoint is accurate. You can find plenty of good reasons to choose a paid antivirus product, and plenty of good reasons to go with a freebie.

• Symantec gets good vibes from virtualized browser

  By Robert McMillan | 15 January, 2009 07:58

  Security vendor Symantec is using new virtual machine technology to protect Web surfers from online attack.

• Symantec: Online underground economy is booming

  By Carol Ko | 11 December, 2008 06:30

  An online underground economy has recently matured into an efficient, global marketplace to trade stolen goods and offer fraud-related services.