In its June 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, Symantec highlighted how the amount of spam related to the keywords of soccer and football since March 2010 has reached 25 percent of overall spam as the World Cup continues. Holidays such as St. Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas are occasions that receive a great deal of [...]
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Recently, vice president and general manager of Symantec (NSDQ: SYMC) Public Sector, GiGi Schumm sat down with CRN to discuss the cyber legislation on the hill, the direction of Symantec and how the firm is a thought leader in cybersecurity. “Symantec is very reliant on our channel and on our partners, and in the public [...]
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During the Symantec Government Symposium 2010, in Washington, D.C, Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) announced its 2010 Cyber 7 Awards winners. The awards recognize seven individuals who are involved in furthering government cybersecurity efforts. “Our public servants in government IT security and management are on the front lines, protecting our critical data infrastructures,” said Gigi Schumm, vice [...]
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If you are an online gamer–think World of Warcraft and Aion–better get that password changed ASAP: Symantec has discovered a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts, validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. The database server uncovered by Symantec appears to be the heart of the operation, part of a [...]
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Symantec has discovered a phishing site spoofing a credit union that provides financial services to members of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force and their family members. The phishing site states the customer’s login has been locked because of several failed login attempts. The page also prompts customer to fill in a form [...]
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Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt will be delivering a keynote presentation at the Symantec Government Symposium: No Compromise – Open, Secure, Everywhere held June 22, 2010 in Washington, D.C. A one-day annual happening devoted to the public sector and its partners, the event will bring together more than 1,000 government IT, security and business professionals to [...]
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In order to build cyber capabilities, companies have one of two options; invest into expanding your own offerings by building the capabilities into your company structure or acquire a company that already has the capabilities you are seeking. Last week, Harris Corporation and Symantec each announced several acquisition moves. McAfee (NYSE:MFE) has also joined the [...]
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Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) has announced that it plans to acquire VeriSign for around $1.3 billion. Symantec will acquire VeriSign’s authentication and identity business. That includes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Services and the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service. “With the anonymity of [...]
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Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. Symantec will pay around $300 million in cash for PGP Corporation and an additional $70 million in cash for GuardianEdge. “The agreements are subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and are expected to [...]
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Africa is currently seeing a spur of phishing attacks, and with South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup this year, cyber criminals in that region are getting even busier. “Major sporting events provide a perfect cover behind which cyber criminals can launch sophisticated attacks on individuals, companies and governments,” Symantec researchers said. “These range from [...]
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