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Symantec says spam is now under 50 percent of all emails sent for the first time since 2003
Symantec says spam is now under 50 percent of all emails sent for the first time since 2003
It would appear that email spam is not as lucrative a business as it used to be. 20 Jul 2015 - 7 comments
Symantec cuts 500,000 PCs from ZeroAccess botnet
Symantec cuts 500,000 PCs from ZeroAccess botnet
Symantec has managed to shrink the ZeroAccess botnet by around a quarter, cutting off over 500,000 computers from the yet-unidentified operators of the notorious network. 03 Oct 2013
Norton app for Android flags Facebook app for privacy breach
Norton app for Android flags Facebook app for privacy breach
Symantec's Norton Mobile Security for Android discovered a strange behaviour in Facebook's Android app that leaks the device phone number even without logging in. 29 Jun 2013
Microsoft, Symantec behead botnet, give infected machines clean-up information
Microsoft, Symantec behead botnet, give infected machines clean-up information
Microsoft and Symantec have used the United States legal system to disrupt a botnet that enslaved hundreds of thousands of PCs. 07 Feb 2013 - 6 comments
Symantec update bricks some PCs
Symantec update bricks some PCs
Symantec, the maker of anti-virus software, has confirmed that an update to its popular Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 and Norton anti-virus ...... 16 Jul 2012 - 21 comments
     

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