Blog Posts Tagged with "Symantec"
Symantec Reverse Engineers OS X Flashback Malware
May 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec researchers reverse engineered components of the Flashback malware that recently infected more than 600,000 Mac systems and reveal that it was designed in part as a highly profitable ad-clicking operation that could be net the Trojan's creators $10,000 per day...
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The Fight Against Spam Might Get a Little Easier
May 11, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
Facebook recently announced efforts to stop spammers by creating the Antivirus Marketplace. The service will provide a free six month license to antivirus software. McAfee, Symantec, Sophos and others are teaming with Facebook to offer free antivirus software...
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Symantec Targeted in Source Code Extortion Scheme
May 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Symantec’s internal information security team has analyzed the code that was posted and has determined it is NOT Symantec source code... this is NOT Norton source code that has been posted, this is not a hack of Norton... and this does no pose a threat in any way to Norton products..."
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Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Summary
May 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"In addition to the 81% surge in attacks, the number of unique malware variants also increased by 41% and the number of Web attacks blocked per day also increased dramatically, by 36%. Greater numbers of more widespread attacks employed advanced techniques..."
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Huawei Symantec: Fear of Chinese Espionage Ends Venture
March 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
While I understand the defensive approach, I believe that such behavior could have serious repercussions on the global market. In terms of security, little will change by breaking strategic alliances. Cyber attacks will continue and will increase in frequency and efficiency...
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The Real Reason Symantec Sold its Interest in Huawei Symantec
March 27, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
While the joint venture may be over, remember a lot of Huawei equipment has already been sold to the U.S. government including DOD and NASA through channel partners like MPAK and Dell Force 10 Networks. To make matters worse, no one is testing for backdoors in firmware updates...
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Average Cost of a Data Breach $5.5 Million in 2011
March 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Insiders continue to pose a serious threat to the security of their organizations. This is particularly true as the increasing adoption of tablets, smart phones and cloud applications in the workplace means that employees are able to access corporate information anywhere..."
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Symantec Identifies New Duqu Trojan Driver Variant
March 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec reports the discovery of a previously unseen driver (mcd9×86.sys) for Duqu that was apparently compiled as recently as February of this year, giving reason to believe the malware is very much alive and kicking...
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Symantec Confirms 2006 Norton AV Source Code Dump
March 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Symantec can confirm that the source code for 2006 versions of Norton Antivirus posted by Anonymous is authentic. The exposure of this code poses no increased risk to Norton or Symantec customers. This code is part of the original cache of code for 2006 versions of the products..."
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Anonymous Gets Pwned...
March 06, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The almighty "Anonymous" has always been that the group consists of a handful of seriously talented coders and a cast of thousands of morons, and so word that our "friends" at the RBN had scored on a trending thing by linking to malware really didn't surprise me at all...
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Sophisticated New Zeus Variants Continue to Propagate
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Every peer in the botnet can act as a C&C server, while none of them really are one. Bots are now capable of downloading commands, configuration files, and executables from other bots - every compromised computer is capable of providing data to the other bots..."
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Remote Attack Code for Symantec's pcAnywhere in the Wild
February 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"A surprising amount of the core code originates from... 10 years ago with only a few added changes, mainly to accommodate changes in Windows versions. Many individual .exe or other files include an accompanying Word document with a detailed developer description of how it functions.."
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Security Weekly News Roundup: Tunnel Vision
February 11, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
As security professionals do we all just suffer from “security tunnel vision” or is something major shifting in our industry? Is it all just related to the significant rise in hacktivism or the 24-hour news cycle requiring that every little thing become a news story?
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Did the 2006 Symantec Breach Expose RSA's SecurID?
February 10, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The Symantec leak could pose a risk to RSA's SecurID. Examination of the source code for PCAnywhere turned up something disturbing - numerous header files and several libraries belonging to RSA, and SecurID code is part of the exposed PCAnywhere product source code...
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Starting to Clean Up the Mess from PCAnywhere
February 09, 2012 Added by:Damion Waltermeyer
I realized not everyone was even sure how to go about starting to clean up from the PCAnywhere exploit. To start, I am going to share with you my method for finding machines that are potentially open to this exploit...
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Cyber Defense Weekly: Hacks, Breaches, and Disclosures
February 08, 2012 Added by:Cyber Defense Weekly
"Us law firms have been penetrated both here and abroad. Firms with offices in China and Russia are particularly vulnerable, because the foreign security services are likely to own the people who handle the the firms' physical and electronic security..."
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