Symantec

Former Intuit chief Steve Bennett takes over as CEO of Symantec. Can the security vendor juice growth and fend off critics?

July 25, 2012 by Larry Dignan

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Capital city of Sichuan in central China, Chengdu, will host 2013 Fortune Global Forum and now produces over half of world's Intel mobile CPUs.

July 17, 2012 by Liu Jiayi

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The director of the National Security Agency (NSA) has called cybercrime "the greatest transfer of wealth in history." As such, he urged politicians and the American population in general to support cybersecurity legislation being pushed through Congress.

July 10, 2012 by Emil Protalinski

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Symantec announced at its Next@Norton event that it will be moving to version-less software for its consumer products in the coming months, with new features deployed to customers, without the need to upgrade to a new version.

June 21, 2012 by Anthony Caruana

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NextDC has nabbed former Symantec Australian vice president, Craig Scroggie, as its new CEO, just a fortnight after Scroggie left the security giant.

June 13, 2012 by Josh Taylor

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Symantec managing director and vice president for the Pacific region, Craig Scroggie, has stepped down from his position after serving the business for eight and a half years.

May 29, 2012 by Michael Lee

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The 11th annual AusCERT information security conference kicked off this morning, with the theme "Security on the move".

May 16, 2012 by Zennith Geisler

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Symantec has posted its fourth-quarter and fiscal year results for the year ending 30 March, confirming the previously forecasted lower-revenue figures for the quarter — but an overall 9 per cent increase in revenue for the year.

May 3, 2012 by Michael Lee

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Scammers and spammers have changed tack and are now moving to social media to look for better victims according to Symantec's first quarter threat report.

April 30, 2012 by Michael Lee

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Malware authors are getting better at attacking mobile phones, by taking a trick or two from their desktop days and applying them to phones, according to researchers from Symantec and Total Defense.

March 12, 2012 by Michael Lee

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McAfee's chief technology officer proposes breaking the myth that certain things don't need to be secured, and that certain things aren't securable.

February 29, 2012 by Rachel King

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An analysis of Symantec's leaked source code for PCAnywhere has revealed that the code has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 years, and that it could be turned into a back-door application.

February 19, 2012 by Michael Lee

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Symantec has today confirmed that email correspondence between the company and a hacker, in which the company attempted to confirm the theft of its source code and offer US$50,000 to stop it from appearing online, did actually occur.

February 6, 2012 by Luke Hopewell

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Symantec has acquired LiveOffice, an archiving company, for US$115 million. With the move, Symantec bolsters its cloud-computing chops so that it can play more of an on-premise and software as a service (SaaS) game.

January 17, 2012 by Larry Dignan

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The Tasmanian Department of Education has picked Symantec's Endpoint Protection 12 product to protect 40,000 computers and 700 servers.

December 19, 2011 by Suzanne Tindal

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