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Blocking Malicious Code And Spam With Symantec Solutions Helps Global IT Company Continue Its Fast Growth
White Papers It turned to Symantec to eliminate significant disruption from malicious code, block 90 to 95 percent of spam, and reduce incoming email by 75 percent through filtering spam, thereby minimizing storage costs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Flash Attack Compromises 20,000 Websites
News The code then redirects users to sites hosting malicious Flash files, according to an advisory on Symantec's SecurityFocus site. Malicious code is being injected into third-party domains, probably through SQL-injection attacks.
[May 28, 2008, 12:46]
Symantec Finds Flaws In Vista's Core
News However, we have identified certain weaknesses in the kernel enhancements that may be leveraged by malicious code to undermine these improvements," Matthew Conover, principal security researcher at Symantec, wrote in the report titled " Assessment...
[August 10, 2006, 8:30]
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume V
White Papers Leveraging the full breadth of Symantec's technology and service offerings, the report is based on data and analysis that cover the full spectrum of information security, including network-based cyber attacks, vulnerability analysis, and malicious...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Experts Warn Of JPEG-based Virus Attack
News Both McAfee and Symantec have generic detection in their antivirus software for images that contain malicious code. Though the code only threatens visitors to the newsgroups where the malicious programs -- hidden in images -- are posted, antivirus...
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
Talkback As market share of OS X increases, what you will find is that people will realise just how weak MS is, and how feeble are "security" firms such as Symantec who actually build their business model on malicious code happening.
[March 21, 2005, 8:39]
Attackers Exploit 'extremely Critical Flaw' In Word
News An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by malicious attackers, which could lead to remote execution of code on a user's system, security researcher Secunia advised on Tuesday.
[September 5, 2006, 17:00]
Increase In Windows Attacks Reported
News There are now six variants of malicious code that exploit the vulnerability, Symantec said. Malicious code that exploits the Windows hole has already led to significant growth in the number of hijacked PCs, CipherTrust said last week.
[September 1, 2006, 9:05]
Instant Messaging And P2P Attacks Skyrocket
News Symantec expects the Web server to be targeted again by a "highly destructive malicious-code attack". Several vulnerabilities allow attackers to compromise client systems through Web pages containing embedded malicious code, while others can enable...
[October 1, 2003, 17:49]
Symantec Flaw Putting Users At Risk
News Computers are at risk if they run an unpatched version of a Symantec product that scans files to detect malicious code and if they use the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating systems, Symantec said.
[February 10, 2005, 8:30]
Drive-by Pharming Poses Security Risk
News Security firm Symantec warned earlier this week that drive-by pharming could allow a malicious attacker to steal a user's bank details. To execute a drive-by pharming attack, a malicious hacker would have to create a web page that contained...
[February 20, 2007, 16:12]
Second Zero-day Excel Flaw Emerges
News The latest vulnerability could cause Excel to crash after a malicious file is opened, according to an alert Symantec sent to customers on Monday. To exploit either one of the new flaws, an attacker would craft a malicious Excel file and host that...
[June 21, 2006, 10:15]
Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaws
News These vulnerabilities are increasingly being used to facilitate online fraud through the installation of malicious software on vulnerable computers," Oliver Friedrichs, a senior manager at Symantec Security Response, said in a statement.
[December 14, 2005, 9:00]
Inktomi Aims To Block Web-based Viruses
News The software will scan any object from a Web site for malicious code before caching that object to Inktomi's Traffic Edge Security Edition server software, which serves pages to employees' browsers and also saves pages for easy recall.
[April 11, 2002, 9:45]
Symantec: Mozilla Browsers More Vulnerable Than IE
News The report also highlighted the trend of hackers operating for financial gain rather than recognition, increased potential exposure of confidential information, and a "dramatic increase in malicious code variants".
[September 19, 2005, 14:00]
Mainstream Web Sites Spreading Back-door Infections
News The theory is not only supported by the fact that the server storing the malicious code is in Russia, but also by the sophisticated nature of the attacks, Symantec's Huger said. Researchers believe that attackers seed the Web sites with malicious...
[June 25, 2004, 8:40]
MyDoom Strikes Again Through IE Flaw
News The program sneaks past antivirus applications that detect malicious software by scanning email messages with attached programs. When the victim clicks on the link, a Windows-based PC will call Internet Explorer and load a malicious Web page from...
[November 9, 2004, 7:53]
Virus Bounty 'will Change Nothing'
News This bounty is really meant to deter people from releasing malicious code into the wild, not necessarily writing malicious code," he said. It really depends on the demographic," said Carey Nachenberg, chief architect for security firm Symantec.
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
Major Windows Flaw Patched
News It would be fairly easy for an attacker to create a malicious document that could compromise a system and circulate this document through email or websites," Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager at Symantec Security Response, said in a statement on...
[May 11, 2005, 9:35]
Virus 2000: Nasty And Network Aware
News With fast-spreading worms such as Melissa and ExploreZip showing the way, virus writers proved the efficacy of using the Internet to spread malicious computer code "at the speed of thought," as Bill Gates' ghost writer is fond of saying.
[December 29, 1999, 15:33]
