Neowin News Feed for: Symantec

Microsoft & Symantec team up to take down Bamital botnet

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:11:17 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has teamed up with antivirus company Symantec to shut down the Bamital botnet which included a raid today on web hosting facilities in Virginia and New Jersey. Read more...

Symantec: Norton software makes Windows 8 run faster

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:32:49 +0100

The well-known security enterprise boosts self-funded tests claiming better performances for the new Windows OS when coupled with a Norton-branded product. Read more...

Malware causing printers to create "garbled printouts"

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:55:23 +0100

A recent PC malware infection has created an interesting side effect; printers infected with the program are creating "garbled printouts" at random until the printer runs out of paper. Read more...

Flashback Mac botnet generated $14,000 in revenue for creators

John Callaham — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:48:44 +0100

Symantec claims that the Flashback botnet that infected hundreds of thousands of Mac PCs generated $14,000 in revenues in three weeks, but could have made millions more. Read more...

Norton 2013 public beta supports Windows 8, Metro UI

John Callaham — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:30:22 +0100

Symantec has released beta versions of three of its Norton 2013 security projects, all of which support Windows 8 Consumer Preview and its Metro touch screen interface. Read more...

Religious websites have more malware than porn sites

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:51:53 +0100

According to Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report, religious websites on average have a much higher risk of containing malware than other websites, including porn websites. Read more...

Facebook offers free anti-virus solutions from Microsoft and others

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:02:03 +0100

Facebook has launched its Antivirus Marketplace page where users can download anti-virus software, including Microsoft Security Essentials. Facebook has also expanded its URL blacklist. Read more...

Dr. Web: Flashback malware hasn't been cut down after all

John Callaham — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:43:28 +0100

Despite reports earlier in the week that Mac infections from the Flashback malware had been cut down, Dr. Web claims that Flashback has still infected 566,000 Mac PCs. Read more...

Flashback infections fall to 140,000 computers

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:26:40 +0100

The number of Mac computers infected with the Flashback malware has fallen from more than 600,000 at its peak to around 140,000, though this drop falls short of Symantec's predictions. Read more...

Anonymous leaks 2006 source code for Norton AntiVirus

Paul Ferson — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Anonymous announces on Twitter that it has released the Norton AntiVirus 2006 source code with the world via The Pirate Bay, months after first claiming to have got their hands on it. Read more...

Symantec: Anonymous tricked into installing malware

John Callaham — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:23:13 +0000

A new report from Symantec claims that a number of supporters of the hacker group Anonymous were tricked into installing malware on their PCs, although Anonymous says this claim is false. Read more...

Symantec offered $50,000 to source code hacker

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:01 +0000

Symantec admits that as part of a sting operation it offered to pay $50,000 to the hacker who said he had the source code to the company's PCAnywhere and Norton Anti-Virus products. Read more...

Symantec admits to pcAnywhere threat from code leak

John Callaham — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:23:34 +0000

PC security software company Symantec has now admitted that the online theft of some of its source code could pose an "increased risk" for users of its pcAnywhere product. Read more...

Symantec now admits to cyber attack on code in 2006

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:00:09 +0000

Symantec has now admitted that the source code obtained by hackers for its line of anti-virus software was obtained in 2006 from its own servers, rather than from a third party. Read more...

Older Symantec anti-virus source code leaked

John Callaham — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:01:08 +0000

Anti-virus software maker Symantec has admitted that hackers have leaked the source code for one of its products onto the Internet but claim that the code that was leaked is several years old. Read more...

iOS and Android security compared

Eric Lehman — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:17:10 +0100

Today, security company Symantec issued a white paper detailing strengths and weaknesses in the security of the two largest mobile operating systems, Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The white paper, found here, outlines the best... Read more...

Symantec: Facebook applications inadvertently leaked personal information

Denis Wong — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:02:36 +0100

If Facebook was really an "appalling spy machine," it would probably be decommissioned and smashed to bits for allowing information to leak easily to unwanted hands. No, it's not necessarily just American intelligence agencies. Advertisers... Read more...

Neowin Review: Norton 360 5.0

Owen Williams — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:43:35 +0100

There's a lot of internet security solutions out there these days, and to survive (and beat the free competition), Symantec has really had to up their game with their latest major release of Norton 360.... Read more...

PC Tools releases worst internet security blunders of 2010

Owen Williams — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:45:10 +0000

PC Tools, a Symantec owned brand -- which recently launched in New Zealand -- have released their top 7 worst security blunders in 2010, following on to Google's "Zeitgeist" list, of "How the world searched"... Read more...

Winners announced: PC Tools announces New Zealand launch + Giveaway

Owen Williams — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:13:13 +0000

In early November, PC Tools -- an Australian based Antivirus and PC performance and protection tools development and research company -- announced that they are releasing their products into the New Zealand market for sale. PC... Read more...