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. More...
The well-known security enterprise boosts self-funded tests claiming better performances for the new Windows OS when coupled with a Norton-branded product. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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... More...
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... More...
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.... More...
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"... More...
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... More...
Symantec admitted recently that their Norton Internet Security Suite labels files associated with World of Warcraft as malicious. The security suite deleted the files it thought were malware, causing the game to stop working. Product Manager... More...
Today, Internet service provider Comcast announced that it will be switching from McAfee anti-virus to Symantec's Norton Security Suite. The switch from McAfee to Norton will benefit Norton, Comcast and its 15.7 million customers. The deal... More...
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers... More...
Back when I got my first PC, there wasn't a need for Antivirus software, malware wasn't heard of, and Spam came in a can, and could arguably be called a tasty treat. Now, you... More...
Symantec Thursday released a free tool that wipes spurious entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the company's security software after they were upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or... More...
Email, once the cyber criminals' favourite method of delivering malware to your computer, has been replaced by the web as the primary conduit of attack says internet security firm Symantec. In its latest Internet Security... More...
After nearly two years of litigation, Microsoft Corp. and Symantec Corp. have settled a dispute over data-storage technologies in Microsoft products. The suit, filed by Symantec in May 2006, alleged that Microsoft wrongly used Symantec's... More...
More than 35 thousand readers of the German magazine PC Praxis have named Kaspersky Internet Security “Product of the Year” under the category of “IT security”. This year is the first time Kaspersky Lab’s Internet... More...
Symantec Corporation has earned an unprecedented 35th consecutive VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin. Symantec was one of only two vendors to receive a perfect detection score for all the December 2007 tests, while many security... More...
Symantec's security software is gearing up for the New Year with a few enhancements. The Cupertino-based security vendor slated the release of Norton 360 Version 2.0 Beta for early January. While the basic Norton 360... More...
The United States District Court for the Central District of California has awarded Symantec Corporation $21 million in damages against a large network of distributors selling counterfeit Symantec software. In civil cases filed in November... More...
An update for the company's Norton Antivirus software has yet again caused problems with its customers' computers. While Symantec is saying it was just a mistake involving a routine software update, the problems caused by... More...
Symantec said Monday that it will spend $350 million to purchase data leak prevention vendor Vontu, making it the latest security vendor to enter this new but crowded market. The acquisition is expected to close... More...
Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild. This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word... More...
On Friday at around 8:40 p.m. EDT, Symantec Corporation sent an e-mail with the subject "DeepSight Increased ThreatCon from 1 to 4 Alert" to enterprise customers of Symantec's DeepSight advanced alert system. ThreatCon uses a... More...
The NEW Norton 2008 products deliver comprehensive security, home network monitoring, performance and more, allowing you to have confidence in your connected world. What's new in Norton AntiVirus 2008 ... More...
Symantec Corp. today announced the launch of Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008, industry leading security solutions that have been enhanced to provide computer users with comprehensive protection against new and emerging online... More...
Symantec has delayed the launch of its Virtual Security Appliance for Intel's vPro enterprise desktop platform. Originally intending to ship the application next month, the security vendor has pushed back the launch date to mid-2008,... More...
A bug in the way Norton AntiVirus software uses the ActiveX programming language could cause serious problems for users of Symantec's products. On Thursday, Symantec patched the flaw warning that a bug in two ActiveX... More...
Five weeks after an errant virus update crippled thousands of Chinese PCs, Symantec Corporation is compensating users by giving them free backup software (Norton Save & Restore 2.0) and extending their subscription to Norton Antivirus... More...
Symantec has emerged from its bunker in the British countryside, moving its malware-fighting operations from a former U.K. military nuclear shelter to a more conventional office in Reading. The nuclear bunker, with concrete walls and... More...
Symantec Corp. kicked off the start of its Vision user conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday by unveiling a host of enhancements to its Veritas NetBackup offering, pooling together new data protection, virtual machine recovery... More...
Symantec announced late today a free public beta for its new Norton AntiBot software that attempts to identify malware on your system by analyzing its behavior. The stand-alone software is based on existing (and currently... More...
The Academic Advising Center of the University of Colorado's College of Arts and Science made the mistake of not applying a patch to its Symantec Corporation anti-virus management console which resulted in the compromise of... More...
Anti-virus and computer security software-maker Symantec Corporation has announced it is suing eight companies, for a total of $55 million USD. Symantec alleges in filings in U.S. District Court in California that the businesses are... More...
Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for $10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a... More...
Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing. In May 2006,... More...
Symantec is launching a software-as-a-service platform aimed at bringing security offerings to small- and medium-sized businesses. The Cupertino, California-based security company has announced that the Symantec Protection Network – Online Backup Service has gone into... More...
Symantec Corporation has released its first suite of security software (Symantec Mobile Security Suite 5.0) for Microsoft's Windows Mobile devices which add VPN (virtual private network), data encryption, antispam and other features to Symantec current... More...
Symantec is investigating a potentially serious vulnerability in its Mail Security for SMTP software that could be exploited by hackers to launch denial of service attacks or take control over affected systems. By creating and... More...