“Symantec just announced a pretty cool, interactive, free tool to help stay abreast of security trends and activities. It even has historical data! There’s an online version, a installable Windows gadget and you can access it via your mobile phone! It's pretty...”
“Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud
It has only been a few days since the resignation of Egypt's long-standing president, Hosni Mubarak, who resigned after intense political pressure following days of widespread protest across the country. As...”
“Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud
MessageLabs Intelligence recently tracked a new pharmaceutical spam campaign promoting a supposedly "Google-accredited" online pharmacy. This is obvious brand hijacking: Google does not host or approve any...”
“In spite of mounting evidence to the contrary, many of the enterprise security leaders with whom I speak seem to still be living in a world where the greatest threat to their enterprise was the “hacker” trying to breach their firewall. When the MSSP industry was born in the late...”
“Welcome to the new Managed Security Services Blog!
by Grant Geyer, VP Global Managed Services
Welcome to the Symantec Managed Security Services (MSS) blog! As practitioners are fully aware, while more and more of our critical assets are moving online, the threat landscape is bad and getting...”
“Q. What’s the only computer virus to ever appear in an episode of Friends?
A. The Anna Kournikova virus (celebrating its tenth birthday on February 11, 2011)
10 years ago, on 11 February 2001, the Anna Kournikova virus swept the internet, tricking email users everywhere into opening a mail...”
“The domain .РФ (.rf) is the internationalized domain name (IDN) for domains registered under the Russian Federation. The .rf top-level domain (TLD) became operational on May 13, 2010, and was officially opened up for public registration on November 11, 2010. The traditional country code top-level...”
“Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec.cloud
As we extensively covered on the MessageLabs Intelligence blog last year, the 2010 soccer FIFA World Cup in South Africa, enjoyed by millions, was also used by both 419/advance fee fraud scammers and malware authors...”
“The most awaited tournament for cricket lovers, the ICC World Cup 2011, begins on February 19, 2011. The ICC World Cup is being played in the Indian subcontinent, and the country’s cricket-crazy population is all set to get hold of World Cup tickets in every possible way—all to witness...”
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Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services and Matt Sergeant, Senior Anti-Spam Technologist, Symantec Hosted Services
On December 25, 2010, Rustock, the largest of the spam botnets, went quiet. Why this happened, we don't know but what we do know is that...”