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using windows vista Home Premuim and I am trying to load the SP1 update. Every time I try to load it, either manualy or automatically, I keep getting loading errors. These errors are 800706BE or the latest, 800734712, can anyome tell me if they know of a way to get around these errors and be able to do these upgrades as I cannot update to SP2 or Internet Explorer 8 Optimised until I get the SP 2  loaded. Thanks for any help!!

This morning, Symantec announced our intention to acquire Gideon Technologies, Inc., a provider of standards-based information security solutions that automate and orchestrate IT security and risk management.  For the Symantec Public Sector team, this announcement is significant because it provides further evidence of our commitment to provide public sector customers with leading Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)-validated configuration and vulnerability assessment solutions.

If you are not familiar with SCAP, it  is a suite of specifications that standardize the format by which security software products communicate.  Symantec recently participated in the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference held by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Department of Homeland...

Symantec recently hosted Government Security News editor-in-chief Jacob Goodwin on a "Black Market Tour" that demonstrates how information is stolen and sold by hackers throughout the world.  As Goodwin mentions in his story, Symantec has received a terrific reception for this educational exhibit which has toured Toronto, New York City, Washington, Tokyo, London and Mountain View, CA.

Goodwin's take?

"The Black Market Tour attempts to recreate a hacker's "lair," where the evil-doer might use phishing software to fool victims into allowing key-logging software to track their computer's keystrokes. The hacker might then grab their victims' account numbers, passwords, security codes and the answers to a slew of security questions, all in an effort to assemble marketable "personal identities" which can be sold in bundles to nefarious buyers via the...

Last week, Symantec announced its participation in the Lockheed Martin NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center. This initiative supports the Symantec’s vision of providing comprehensive and long-term security solutions for the US Government through intimate knowledge of government requirements and challenges, forward-leaning technologies, and working relationships with the public and private organizations that drive governmental standards and vision.

As reported in Government Computer News, the center will "the new NexGen facility will be able to tap into the defense center's data feeds, or simulate government agency computing environments, and test various approaches to mitigate cyberattacks.... The new center also features dedicated distributed cloud computing and virtualization capabilities. Those capabilities would permit an agency to...