All the stories tagged with symantec
Symantec releases Norton 2013 public beta
05/05/2012, Symantec, the largest maker of personal computer security software, has released the first public beta of Norton Antivirus 2013, Norton Internet Security 2013 and Norton 360 2013. Symantec hopes to offer the best ever user experience, both on existing platforms [...]
Symantec Says Purpose for Flashback Botnet was Profit
05/01/2012, The Botnet called ‘Flashback’ which infected over 600,000 Mac computers a while back is believed to have been created to net its authors as much as $10,000 a day. According to a blog post by Symantec, the primary motivation [...]
Google Play Removes 29 Data Stealing Apps with Symantec’s Help
04/18/2012, In another episode of the battle against malicious app developers, Google has removed a total of 29 applications from its Play Store for Android devices. The apps allegedly harvested email address along with phone numbers and uploaded them to command [...]
Hacker releases Symantec’s source code
02/07/2012, Remember the story that hit the wire earlier this morning, where a hacker calling himself YamaTough was negotiating with Symantec concerning a $50,000 blackmail, in order to prevent the source code from being released? That is discovered to be a [...]
Symantec offered hacker group $50,000 to keep the source code private
02/07/2012, Symantec has placed a $50,000 goodie bag forward for the hacker group who managed to gain access to PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus code, hoping that the amount would be enough to placate them from putting forward the source code for [...]
Huawei to buyout Symantec’s stake in their joint venture
11/15/2011, Huawei, a company known for putting out affordable mobile devices has announced their plans to buy out the remaining 49% stake in their Symantec joint venture. For those unfamiliar, Symantec is a company that specializes in security software for computers, [...]
Norton Tablet Security announced
11/02/2011, Left and right, you see and hear about computers as well as smartphones getting hit by viruses and malware – and this scourge needs to be stamped out, although it would be impossible to do so in a classic game [...]
Norton Anti-Theft Protects Lost Mobile Devices
10/02/2011, Symantec launched Norton Anti-Theft, a web-based service that enables people to remotely lock, locate and retrieve lost or stolen mobile devices. There are many similar products on the market, such as Find My iPhone by Apple, GadgetTrak, AccuTracking, SeekDroid that [...]
Samsung 470 SSD now with Norton Ghost
08/02/2011, One of the main problems about upgrading your hard disk is having to backup, transfer files, and reinstalling all your programs. The hassle alone usually puts people off from upgrading their hard disk drives, which means they usually keep them [...]
