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Security expert Symantec has discovered what it refers to as an OSX.Loosemaque threat cleverly disguised as a classic video and targeting unsuspecting Mac users. Trojan.Loosemaque is designed to look like a Space Invaders/Galaga style game that deletes a file from your home directory, for every alien ship you destroy... |
4 November 2009
02:51 GMT |
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After the number of phishing attacks drastically declined by 45% in August, the trend continued during September according to Symantec. United States remains the country hosting the most phishing sites, which increased in number due to a lower usage of automated toolkits.Symantec's State of Phishing monthly repo... |
12 October 2009
06:33 GMT |
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A Symantec blog post that belittles Microsoft's new free security offering, called Microsoft Security Essentials, was not received too well by users. Meanwhile, other security experts had a more moderate or even favorable opinion of the product.In case you haven't heard yet, a few days ago, the Redmond-base... |
2 October 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Symantec has launched its latest iteration of security solutions under the Norton brand, tailoring the releases to Windows 7, but also its precursors, Windows Vista and Windows XP. The lineup of products includes two offerings: Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010, and users can get a taste of both... |
11 September 2009
07:29 GMT |
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On September 9th, this year, Symantec will be launching its new Internet Security Suite with some innovative, new protection and reporting features. Attacked users will have the option to report real-time attacks and/or attackers to proper authorities, while also being weekly informed of the FBI's top 10 most wa... |
8 September 2009
04:12 GMT |
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The Norton Safe Web project, run by Symantec, issued a list containing the dirtiest websites on the web. The dirty site list is spearheaded by a website containing no more, no less than 56,371 malware threats. The average of all websites on the list is a staggering 18,000 different threats. Coming to show no surpris... |
21 August 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Security company Symantec has released an interesting top of the 100 most popular searches kids do online. The top three results are YouTube, Google and Facebook, some of the largest sites online. While many of the entries aren't that surprising, several trends emerge from the list, like the fact that searching ... |
12 August 2009
11:24 GMT |
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According to the monthly reports issued by Symantec Corporation, State of Spam and State of Phishing, spam email has dropped 8% since last month, while phishing attacks have increased by a staggering 52% during July. The majority of spam topics continued to deal with Barack Obama’s political issues and the deat... |
10 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Everything is heading towards 2010 and, as usual, the security product developers make haste to issue their latest work before the end of 2009 (generally it all becomes clear once fall comes). With BitDefender an inch away from closing the beta for its Total Security and releasing the final development and Panda goin... |
7 July 2009
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If you're going to go out, at least go out with a bang. This seems to be Microsoft's motto for Windows Live OneCare, a security solution that, in the latest comparative tests performed by AV-Comparatives, managed to best almost all rival products, including offerings from Eset, BitDefender, Kaspersky, AVG, ... |
1 June 2009
09:47 GMT |
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The world's first Mac OS X botnet has reportedly been discovered. Symantec researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli said the malware was actually discovered back in January, and came courtesy of two trojans, previously reported of here on Softpedia. According to Symantec's researchers, a Mac OS... |
17 April 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Websites belonging to Symantec and Kaspersky Labs, two of the biggest global providers of security solutions, have been found to be vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Ill-intent individuals could have exploited the flaws to steal authentication cookies or inject rogue IFrames and other potentially malicious ... |
16 April 2009
07:08 GMT |
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IT security giant Symantec has notified authorities in the U.K., the U.S. and Puerto Rico that the credit card information of around 200 of its customers might have been compromised. The company has started an investigation at one of its outsourced call centers in India, after BBC reporters successfully acquired vali... |
1 April 2009
06:28 GMT |
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An unsigned component called pifts.exe that was pushed by Symantec to its customers created quite a stir on the Internet yesterday, even raising several conspiracy theories. The malware distributors did not miss the chance to target the massive amount of users searching for information about the curious file and inje... |
11 March 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec announce that an update has been delivered to some Conficker-infected computers. From the initial analysis, it looks like the new variant ups the stakes by generating 50,000 domain names per day instead of 250. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is one of the most s... |
9 March 2009
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A new study conducted on US workers reveals that 60 percent of them steal private company data when they leave or are thrown out of their jobs, and that most of that information gets used for various purposes. The percentage has been put forth after a new research by the Ponemon Institute, which conducted its survey ... |
23 February 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Following the disclosure of a flaw in a section of the Symantec website that allegedly allows for SQL injection attacks, the company has denied its existence and invoked an "inconsistent exception handling routine for language options." The Romanian hacker who disclosed the vulnerability disagrees and has released ad... |
20 February 2009
06:39 GMT |
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The Romanian ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog shames yet another antivirus vendor – Symantec. A SQL injection vulnerability in a section of the Symantec website allows unauthorized access to the database. Symantec is one of the biggest IT security companies in the world, developing a wide range of products f... |
19 February 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Symantec and Ask.com have announced a new partnership designed to deliver secure web search results by providing users with ratings that flag websites that could infect their computers with malware.Safe Search will offer site ratings during the search process, so when Norton users will conduct a search task directly ... |
4 February 2009
08:11 GMT |
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Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own. While security for Windows 7 is not a new subject, as you have been able to already read materials on this subject, fact is that following the rel... |
15 January 2009
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False positives are not only potentially more annoying or damaging to computers than the viruses themselves, but they can also put a dent in the profits of legitimate businesses. The sales of a popular UK online florist shop dropped 50% after electronic communications security giant MessageLabs wrongfully tagged thei... |
20 December 2008
06:38 GMT |
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According to security breach notices received by the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, recent incidents at both Symantec and HP compromised the personal information of a number of employees. This was the result of two laptops containing sensitive, though unencrypted data, being stolen. HP announced (PDF fi... |
12 December 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Windows operating systems are far from the no. 1 piracy victim position, according to Symantec. In fact, in a ranking put together by the security outfit involving the most pirated programs in accordance to their value, operating systems come in at number 6 ,out of 8. Symantec discussed software piracy in the Report ... |
27 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is not the sole provider of security solutions choosing to focus on a bare-bone, core anti-malware protection optimized to use just a fraction of the hardware resources available. While the Redmond company's Morro free antivirus is at least half a year away, Symantec has already released a flavor of No... |
27 November 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Symantec has just released its monthly spam report for July, and it shows the appearance of new ingenious ways that hijackers use in order to either sell products through spam or infect the targeted machines. The latest artifice that tricks people into clicking on images that lead to webpages hosting malicious conten... |
21 August 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Symantec has announced the imminent takeover of PC Tools, a security software manufacturer. Although the transaction has already been discussed and both parties have agreed to it, the actual buy is expected to take place by the end of the year. The sum the Cupertino-based security company is to pay for the acquisitio... |
19 August 2008
04:57 GMT |
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Symantec has announced the official release of Norton Safe Web Beta, a plug-in for the Norton Internet Security 2009 solution. The product enables users to verify and avoid malicious websites as they navigate. The tool informs people which of their search results are malware free and which are dangerous. Also, Norton... |
13 August 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Nowadays, typos no longer lead to dead-ends anymore, messages like "server not found" being less encountered. This is all the more true when it comes to words that match almost perfectly the original names that give identity to the URL of a website. The race for presidency in the U.S. is one of the matters of most in... |
8 August 2008
03:33 GMT |
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A total of eleven regional offices of the UNFPA (short for United Nations Population Fund) use NAC (network access control) in order to protect the safety of the core network which is based in New York. What this means is that although a machine can try to access the network from any part of the world, it will only ... |
21 July 2008
06:14 GMT |
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As online threats grow in number more and more each day, it is important to stay as safe and secure as possible: networks must be monitored, security solutions put in place and enforced, data encrypted and protected. But selecting a password for your software programs or encrypted data is not as simple as using your ... |
19 July 2008
07:51 GMT |
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As of this week, the general public can test the beta versions of Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton Antivirus 2009. The researchers from Symantec, the developer of the Norton range of security solutions, say that significant changes have been made to the software so that it can run faster without having to co... |
15 July 2008
11:09 GMT |
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Symantec is one of the best security software companies on the web and this fact only forces it to bring more and more advanced technologies which would be able to protect one's important data. Because of that, Symantec is preparing to implement impressive new features in the upcoming Internet Security 2009 but,... |
23 May 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Symantec has just launched Online Fraud Protection, a special solution which includes numerous security technologies supposed to protect both businesses and their customers. Using the newly-released program, consumers can remain protected against phishing scams, malware threats, pharming attacks and many other threat... |
20 May 2008
16:11 GMT |
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It seems that Adobe Acrobat Reader and Professional users have been and probably still are vulnerable to dangerous attacks. The vulnerability has been discovered by one of the largest security company, Symantec. According to Symantec's webpage, the security issue is part of the Neosploit exploit toolkit and has ... |
6 May 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Symantec has just published the Internet Security Threat Report XIII which provides a closer analysis of the most important threats occurred between July 1 and December 31, 2007. What's really interesting is the phishing section in which the security company talks about the countries hosting phishing websites, t... |
15 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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As far as bad browser plug-ins are concerned, Symantec revealed that Internet Explorer's ActiveX is the worst. When it comes to Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox, the browsers as standalone applications do offer end users a range of functionality and features, but at the same time their capabilities can be ext... |
10 April 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Judging strictly by the sheer volume of vulnerabilities Mozilla Firefox was the most insecure browser in 2007, according to Symantec. Firefox had a total of 122 security holes, more than any other rival browser. Symantec credited the efforts poured into securing Internet Explorer 7 for IE managing to be situated unde... |
10 April 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Windows, Mac OS X and Linux have long disputed superior positions in comparison to one another, in what is essentially a race without a finishing line. Microsoft, Apple and members of the open source community involved in the development of Linux distributions have not been shy of performing countless operating syste... |
9 April 2008
10:16 GMT |
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The third and final service pack for Windows XP is not even out the door, and security company Symantec has already warned of a security vulnerability impacting XP SP3. With the advent of Windows Vista, Microsoft has started beating the drum of the increased security of its latest Windows client in comparison to XP S... |
7 April 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Symantec is one of the most powerful security companies on the market, providing an impressive number of products installed on millions of computers around the world. But what happens if there's a vulnerability in one of its solutions? This means that a huge number of users instantly become defenseless to attack... |
7 April 2008
08:47 GMT |
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The search for the best antivirus of 2008 has advanced one step further, courtesy of security solution testing lab AV-Test.org. All the best available 2008 security suite editions were thrown against in excess of 1.1 million samples of malicious code on an arena of Windows XP SP2. At this point in time, with XP SP3 j... |
13 March 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Mac and security just don't make good news together, since the Mac is quite safe for the time being (a programming glitch here and there, but that's it). Still, Symantec believes that Mac users running Windows through Apple Boot Camp software, VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop (virtualization software) ar... |
11 March 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Norton 360 is old news by now, but version 2.0 is a whole different matter altogether. Symantec made available Norton 360 2.0 aiming it at Windows XP Home, XP Professional, XP Media Center SP2 "or higher", as well as Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, Starter Edition. As far as Windows XP is ... |
5 March 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Phishing is really taking proportions in the cyber crime universe. After initially targeting only online auction sites and online banks, the trend expands to 'working' on virtual casinos. Security company Symantec has discovered the first examples and deepened its research on the matter, after managing to t... |
28 February 2008
14:16 GMT |
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How an online auction site could get implicated in the fight against piracy is a pretty delicate thing, reputation wise, except for the eventuality of it using the software in question. However, the Software & Information Industry Association brought the idea home after suing several eBay auctioneers. The largest act... |
18 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded the fact that its security solutions have bested rival products from McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro in terms of performance. The Redmond company has commissioned a performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations to West Coast Labs (WCL). Subsequently, WCL threw Microsoft ... |
15 February 2008
07:11 GMT |
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When you get caught red-handed - in this case, red-computer-handed, you are only left with one option, and that is to pay the fine. You don't want to be in jail and be somebody's pretty face because you had unlicensed software installed on your computer. If there was anything not worth it, this is, there�... |
12 February 2008
16:51 GMT |
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For the third month in a row, Europe has been the top source of spam, according to security vendor Symantec. It's a worrying fact, because historically, the United States have been the leader of the trend, both in spam sent and as the most spammers' home. Hearing what Frederik Sjostedt has to say and in wha... |
6 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger 9 is expected to bring a totally new chating experience to all its fans out there and the Sunnyvale company really struggles to reach this goal. Following the recent implementation of several new functions (embeddable clips displayed straight into the YM window, new contact list and others), the folks... |
18 January 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Microsoft claims to have a code securing process that is superior to that of Symantec. There is, of course, somewhat of a contradiction in the Redmond company's perspective. The fact of the matter is that Symantec is one of the heavyweights of the security industry, whose entire business is focused on developing... |
7 January 2008
09:47 GMT |
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