Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers computers. Nortons parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and allows customers to profit from the scheme -- in which the company...

Update: Verisign Admits To Security Breaches in 2010

Verisign, the Internet security company responsible for management of the .COM domain, told federal regulators that it was the victim of several successful attacks in 2010, but that those incidents were not reported to the company’s management until September, 2011. The news was first reported by...

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday A hacker with code name of 'Yama Tough' announce via Twitter that on Tuesday he will leak the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software which is 1,7Gb src. Last week Yama Tough has released fragments of source...

Oracle, other companies hacked by Social Engineering attack in #DefCon 19

Oracle, other companies hacked by Social Engineering attack in DefCon 19 A weekend contest from 4th August to 7th August , at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals : their workers are poorly trained...

PGP Disk Encryption Bricks Upgraded Macs

Some Apple Mac users who rushed to upgrade their systems with the company’s latest security patch were left to scramble for help after a conflict with disk encryption software from PGP rendered the upgraded Macs un-bootable. Reports of users who were unable to boot their Macs after upgrading thei...

Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs

Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen or SHY character to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans...