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  IN PICTURES: ARN Securing Virtualisation roundtable
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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

• New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer

  By Lucian Constantin | 17 May, 2013 12:04

  Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.

• McAfee rethinks consumer security service delivery

  By Ellen Messmer | 14 May, 2013 06:12

  McAfee, part of Intel, today announced a profound shift in how it distributes and prices its consumer security products by introducing LiveSafe, a service that combines anti-malware plus a score of other capabilities, such as anti-theft protection and a so-called "safety deposit box" in the cloud that can only be accessed by means of the user's face or voice biometric.

• It's better to call ahead before sending malware, Symantec finds

  By Jeremy Kirk | 14 May, 2013 02:44

  Hackers are finding it pays to call ahead before sending malware-laden email.

• Adobe warns customers of unpatched critical flaw in ColdFusion

  By Lucian Constantin | 09 May, 2013 14:50

  Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers.

• Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

  By Grant Gross | 08 May, 2013 17:49

  Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

• Trend Micro seeks to make Amazon Web Services more secure

  By Ellen Messmer | 30 April, 2013 14:08

  Trend Micro today announced a slate of cloud-based security services that it says protect servers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers.

• IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 April, 2013 17:03

  A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors.

• Targeted attacks up over 2012, SMBs increasingly at risk: Symantec

  By Patrick Budmar | 17 April, 2013 11:55

  Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the Internet, the number of targeted attacks almost doubled in 2012 compared to the prior year, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec, which also found that 31 per cent of all attacks target SMBs or companies with fewer than 250 employees.

• 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.

• Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

  By Stacy Collett | 25 March, 2013 10:17

  Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes.

• Applying Big Data approaches to information security a challenge

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 28 February, 2013 11:10

  Applying Big Data approaches to information security can help enterprises build better situational awareness capabilities, but implementation could prove to be a major challenge, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2013 being held here this week.

• How to talk security so people will listen (and comply!)

  By Stacy Collett | 03 January, 2013 13:04

  Sure you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Insider (registration required)

• Worst security snafus of 2012

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 December, 2012 17:57

  The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.

• 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.