Friday, February 03, 2012
Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download The malware contains instructions to automatically send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers from a large number of European and former Soviet Union countries
Friday, January 06, 2012
Symantec confirms code leak in enterprise security products 'Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions,' company says
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Industrial espionage gang still active: Symantec The mob that sends malware-laden emails purporting to be from a major security vendor is still going strong, the company says
Monday, November 14, 2011
Huawei buys out Symantec in joint venture Partnership to sell storage systems and network gateways hardly lasted three years
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Symantec cloud service seeks out 'rogue certificates' Upcoming service lets IT managers find both public Web-facing and internally-used certificates before they expire
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Symantec's State of Security by the numbers INFOGRAPHIC Symantec pulls out some Canadian numbers from the company's annual security overview
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Cloud security starts on the ground, not in the sky Cloud security remains a key concern for many businesses looking to leverage hybrid infrastructures. Find out what the vendors are doing to help, and why it's also a matter of smart decisions and time
Friday, August 05, 2011
Symantec Enterprise Vault update focuses on social Responding to requests from its customer base, Symantec has added new social media integration, among other changes, to Enterprise Vault in version 10
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Symantec releases next-gen e-mail archiving software Through the new archiving feature, any posts to an organization's publicly-facing social media outlets -- including blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds -- can be preserved to comply with open-records requests and industry regulations
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Symantec extends device encryption to iOS The security vendor now offers PGP Viewer for iOS in an effort to keep up with encryption needs as certain technologies become more popular in the enterprise. Plus, a new version of its endpoint encryption full disk edition with both hardware and software-based encryption
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Social networks ripe for spam The tactics remain largely the same as the e-mail spam era, but social network spammers are having just as much success today
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Symantec compares iOS and Android security Apple's iOS wins in most categories, but neither offers protection against phishing. According to Symantec, possible weaknesses in iOS include its encryption
Monday, June 13, 2011
Virtualization disrupts IT operational process: Symantec Although some forms of virtualization are mature, the technology brings about unexpected operational change that affects admin staff in storage, database, server and backup roles, according to a new study. The expected-actual gaps in benefits for different forms of virtualization
Monday, June 13, 2011
Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud The Symantec survey covered 3,700 IT professionals. The biggest complaints about hybrid/private cloud computing were in scalability, security and time to provision new resources
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Canada shoots to sixth place in global cyber crime list Canada has usually ranked twelfth or thirteenth but its cyber crime landscape has changed dramatically in the past year, according to a new Websense report. The country is also second globally for hosting phishing sites with a 319 per cent jump in the number of servers hosting those sites
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Symantec extends backup, cloud security At Symantec’s Vision conference, the announcement of a partnership with salesforce.com and the extension of backup technology to the cloud addresses fears businesses may have about the cloud in light of recent problems with Amazon and Gmail
Monday, April 25, 2011
Symantec updates e-mail security for enterprises The new defensive capabilities Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 offers IT departments
Thursday, April 14, 2011
McAfee network security gets three improvements The security vendor injects technology from Reflex Systems to help IT departments running desktop and server virtualization get more visibility into network traffic passing over the hypervisor. Plus, McAfee’s network reputation database and a new traffic analysis port are part of the platform
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tax season brings phishing threats Phishing attacks are often seasonal. It's tax season. Put two and two together and find out how scam artists are posing as the taxman
Friday, April 01, 2011
Rogue Android app texts humiliating messages The app's maker threatens to sue security firm for blogging about threat. The Trojanized version of the app includes malicious code that pilfers personal data from the phone and sends it to a remote anonymous server
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
How does Canada’s spam output fare globally? The month of March showed a spam output that is a tad higher than the global rate, according to Symantec’s March 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Why Canada fits well with spam strategies featuring pharmaceutical products
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Symantec to release cloud management software Storage Foundation 6.0 to offer global name space file repository
Friday, March 11, 2011
Assume you’re always under attack: experts Enterprises must make a conscious decision about what information we’re prepared to lose, said an exec with security vendor Symantec. Why companies are missing the mark with security risk management
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Symantec finds fake Google Android update The malware sends SMS messages and purports to be Google's latest security update for Android. The company is still analyzing the code, which it found on a third-party application market targeted at Chinese users
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The cybercrime game has changed: Symantec The cybercrime industry is adapting and utilizing the same technologies and ‘mega trends’ that legitimate businesses are. In fact, they’re doing it in advance of many of us. Read what else was discussed at Infosec
