October 13, 2011 - In the last week or so, erroneous statements about Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud have popped up on a few social media sites. The statements claim that Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud is not a “true” cloud solution and is merely an example of (continue reading...) Read more
October 12, 2011 - Contributors: Shunichi Imano October 2011 marks the eighth annual “National Cyber Security Awareness Month” to be held in the United States. One highly visible concern that makes this year different from previous years is the triple-digit growth rates that are being (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Contributor: Christopher Mendes When stalwarts pass away the world mourns their loss, tributes flow and emotions run high. Whenever we lose a legendary figure, their death brings shock or grief and people are hungry for any and every available piece of (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is an average month — the vendor is releasing 8 bulletins covering a total of 23 vulnerabilities. Nine of the issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Internet (continue reading...) Read more
October 11, 2011 - For years now, we in the cyber security industry have been saying an explosion of mobile malware is just around the corner. Beginning in earnest this year, we have indeed observed a marked increase in threats targeting mobile devices – (continue reading...) Read more
October 9, 2011 - On October 9th a German hacker group going by the name of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) published an analysis of what they claim to be government spying software. The analysis is a 20 page PDF file describing how (continue reading...) Read more
October 7, 2011 - Contributor: Anand Muralidharan The sad news making the rounds these days is the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Co-founder and former CEO. His death has been a terrible loss to both Apple and Apple fans everywhere. Spammers are capitalizing on this incident (continue reading...) Read more
October 7, 2011 - Analysis by Poul Jenson and Masaki Suenega Spotted by Karthik Selvaraj Here at Symantec Security Response we have discovered Python.Pytroj, a proof-of-concept virus that infects .pyc files with arbitrary code. In case you are unfamiliar with Python here is a brief (continue reading...) Read more
October 5, 2011 - Technical analysis: Poul Jensen, Illustrations: Ben Nahorney Meet Downloader.Chepvil, a malware that has been creating quite a lot of noise recently, hitting inboxes far and wide. This threat begins life as an innocent-looking email and quickly transforms itself into a (continue reading...) Read more
September 29, 2011 - It’s no secret that the proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace has added to the ongoing struggle between employees who want to use their mobile devices to access corporate data and the IT departments working to secure and control (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - The holiday season is about to commence and spammers have resurfaced with new offers well in advance. We have already observed spam for Christmas and New Year in the month of September, not to mention spam for Halloween, which is (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - Some of the newest printers have scan-to-email ability, a feature that allows users to email scanned documents to a specified email address on demand. Symantec Intelligence has identified malware authors using social engineering tactics that take advantage of this, sending (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - In the Symantec Intelligence blog we've covered how spammers like to conceal their actual spam sites through elaborate chains of redirects, often involving hacked or compromised sites, URL shortening sites, obfuscation techniques, or combinations of all of these. We've recently seen (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - Some of the newest printers have scan-to-email ability, a feature that allows users to email scanned documents to a specified email address on demand. Symantec Intelligence has identified malware authors using social engineering tactics that take advantage of this, sending (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2011 - Thanks to Shravan Shashikant and the Norton Confidential Online team for providing the data, and to Christopher Mendes for compiling it. Does phish taste better than spam? Yes, perhaps it does. Allow me to explain. The recent past has been one of (continue reading...) Read more
September 22, 2011 - My daughter went on a week-long school trip today morning. She and 30 other kids will visit Switzerland, France and Germany. It is school trip in Europe by (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - Thanks to Anand Muralidharan for contributing to this blog. Recently there was a serious bomb blast outside the high court in Delhi, the capital of India. The blast happened on September 7, 2011, and the investigations are continuing with the National (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - W32.Morto first made headlines in August because of its capability to spread by Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The worm was unique because it was the first of its kind to use the protocol. However, this wasn't the only (continue reading...) Read more
September 19, 2011 - The word ‘Nimda’ may not be the most well remembered in the cyber-crime hall of fame but as malicious worm outbreaks go, Nimda certainly contributed to the malware landscape and was able to cause havoc on 18 September, 10 years (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2011 - Microsoft will ship Windows 8 with built-in anti-virus software. That's the big news that is no doubt being discussed furtively at the watercoolers of computer security companies around the world today. What will it mean to them? A quick glance at (continue reading...) Read more