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Inside the Symantec Security Response labs
News Part of Symantec's main European campus in Dublin houses Symantec Security Response labs, which analyses samples of malware and pushes out antivirus signatures to customers. Austin McCabe, Symantec's European managing director, pictured left, and...
[February 29, 2008, 16:31]
Symantec and Microsoft co-operate on security
News Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organisation alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista.
[October 23, 2007, 16:10]
Symantec admits to LiveUpdate security hole
News The DNS attacks.have been widely known to be an Internet infrastructure problem, not a Symantec product problem, for some time and have been utilised in many well-publicised DNS spoofing, redirection, cache poisoning attacks," reads the Symantec...
[October 11, 2001, 12:15]
Symantec upgrades Korgo worm warning
News The security response team at Symantec said it had increased the threat level warning on W32.Korgo.F worm from a category two to a category three. The senior director of Symantec Security Response, Alfred Huger, said the worm is another example of...
[June 3, 2004, 9:55]
Symantec on alert after surge in Net activity
News Symantec's security service has been placed on alert in response to a substantial jump in domain name server-related activity across the globe. Vincent Weafer, senior director of US-based Symantec Security Response, said the company's DeepSight...
[October 3, 2003, 11:50]
New security hole found in MS Word
News Would-be intruders already have attempted to compromise PCs at a Japanese government entity by exploiting the flaw, Vincent Weafer, the senior director at Symantec Security Response, said in an interview.
[May 22, 2006, 9:45]
Symantec patches four critical firewall flaws
News Symantec has published a security response on its Web site. Guido Sanchidrián, Symantec's EMEA product manager for antivirus, content filtering and security response, said the company has spent the past month developing fixes for the...
[May 13, 2004, 13:20]
Criminal hackers reach beyond Windows and IE review
Reviews So concludes a new Internet Security Threat Report, based on data collected at Symantec's Security Response facilities worldwide. I asked David Cole, director of product management for Symantec Security Response, to use the information uncovered in...
[March 22, 2005, 7:50]
Symantec mistakenly warns of Yahoo Mail virus
News Symantec antivirus products.triggered a false-positive alert with Yahoo Mail beta," Vincent Weafer, a senior director at Symantec Security Response, said in an emailed statement. Given the timeliness of the response and the limited number of...
[March 1, 2007, 14:11]
MSBlast spawns variants as users race to patch
News Security company Symantec, which directly measures the spread of the worm via sensors distributed throughout the Internet, said the number of computers compromised by MSBlast -- aka W32/Lovsan and W32.Blaster -- had reached 228,000 by midmorning...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
Code exists to exploit TCP flaw
News At this time, Symantec has seen no evidence of systems being widely impacted by this exploit," Vincent Weafer, senior director, Symantec Security Response, said in a statement. Security-software maker Symantec said on Thursday that it had confirmed...
[April 23, 2004, 9:10]
MSN Messenger flaw opens back door to hard drive
News Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for Symantec's security response team, said that victims don't actually have to be in conversation with the attacker. Two of the vulnerabilities are considered medium-level risks, while the third presents a medium...
[March 10, 2004, 7:20]
Flash attack compromises 20,000 websites
News Approximately 20,000 websites have been compromised with code that could allow a user's system to be exploited remotely, Symantec security researchers have warned. Further analysis by Symantec indicated another domain involved: dota11.cn.
[May 28, 2008, 12:46]
Worm's growth contained as deadline looms
News Since Monday at noon, the worm had infected as least 330,000 computers, according to security company Symantec. Symantec's data does not take into account the number of infected computers that have been cleaned of the program.
[August 15, 2003, 8:50]
US names cybersecurity head
News Most recently, Yoran has been the vice president for managed security services at Symantec, one of the largest Internet security companies. The Business Software Alliance, whose members include Symantec, applauded Yoran's appointment.
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
Apple QuickTime zero-day flaw 'extremely critical'
News Elia Florio, a security researcher for Symantec, wrote on Symantec's Security Response Weblog that some QuickTime browser plug-ins appear to prevent any shell code being executed. With Firefox, the QuickTime RTSP response is unmoderated.
[November 26, 2007, 11:46]
Microsoft releases six critical patches
News While the batch of critical vulnerabilities all require some sort of user interaction to exploit, the interaction can be as simple as visiting a trusted website that has first been exploited by an attacker," said Ben Greenbaum, senior research...
[February 13, 2008, 13:38]
Microsoft turns up heat on security rivals
News Microsoft is taking on incumbents such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro, the world's top three antivirus companies, to conquer part of the multibillion dollar security market. It will take several more months until Microsoft's products can be...
[April 27, 2007, 10:25]
Companies escape Sasser infection
News Most of that increase is due to the security software maker aggressively scanning for compromised computers, meaning that the rise doesn't necessarily represent how fast the program is spreading, said Alfred Huger, senior director of Symantec...
[May 5, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft patches vulnerable PowerPoint hole
News PowerPoint file, email is likely the most probable method attackers would use to try and exploit these," said Alfred Huger, vice president of Symantec Security Response, in a statement. Symantec said in a statement that the PowerPoint fix related...
[May 13, 2009, 10:29]
