At its annual Symantec Vision conference attended by enterprise customers and business partners, Symantec laid out its management and security product strategy for mobile endpoint devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Google Android devices. View full post on Computerworld Security News View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
Flashback malware netted upwards of $10,000 a day, says Symantec
Symantec said on Tuesday the Flashback malware that attacked Apple Mac computers could have netted its authors up to $10,000 a day. View full post on malware – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Symantec: Flashback Malware Netted Upwards of $10,000 a Day
Symantec said on Tuesday the Flashback malware that attacked Apple Mac computers could have netted its authors up to US$10,000 a day. View full post on malware – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Facebook teams up with Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec to sell antivirus
Facebook has teamed up with five security vendors to offer a range of free and subscription-based antivirus packages. Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec are now part of Facebook’s third party security providers, offering a range of antivirus packages for Windows and Mac users. The vendors have become part of…
Symantec: Flashback malware now down to 140K machines
There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Symantec: Flashback malware now down to 140K machines
There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Symantec says stolen encryption key is the source of signed malware
When Kaspersky Lab last week spotted code-signed Trojan malware dubbed Mediyes that had been signed with a digital certificate owned by Swiss firm Conpavi AG and issued by Symantec, it touched off a hunt to determine the source of the problem. The answer, says Symantec’s website security services unit, is…
Malware Developers Troll for Victims on Twitter: Symantec – Security – News & Reviews
Symantec security researchers are seeing cyber-criminals increasingly using Twitter as a way of luring mobile device users to their malware. In a March 12 post on Symantec’s blog, company employee Joji Hamada said that tweets are becoming a popular way for cyber-criminals to bring people to the Android.Opfake malware. “Users…
Malware Developers Troll for Victims on Twitter: Symantec – Security – News & Reviews
Symantec security researchers are seeing cyber-criminals increasingly using Twitter as a way of luring mobile device users to their malware. In a March 12 post on Symantec’s blog, company employee Joji Hamada said that tweets are becoming a popular way for cyber-criminals to bring people to the Android.Opfake malware. “Users…
Lost smartphones mined by finders: Symantec
Lost smartphones are likely to be mined for valuable information by strangers who find them, according to the results of a sting operation conducted by computer security firm Symantec. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security