Symantec is investigating claims by a group of hackers that they are in possession of source code for its Norton AntiVirus (NAV) product.

The group, which uses the name "The Lords of Dharmaraja," claims to have stolen Symantec source code and documentation from the servers of Indian intelligence agencies, along with intellectual property from other software companies that have contracts with the Indian government.

"As of now we start sharing with all our brothers and followers information from the Indian Military Intelligence servers," the group said in a Pastebin post on Wednesday. "So far we have discovered within the Indian Spy Programme source codes of a dozen software companies which have signed agreements with Indian TANCS programme and CBI."

The original post has been deleted from Pastebin but was still available in Google's cache. It contains...

Symantec Protection Center 2.1 (SPC) has been released!

The Symantec Protection Center Team is proud to announce the release of Symantec Protection Center 2.1 (2.1.0.2075), which was published today to the LiveUpdate Publishing Service.  SPC 2.0 Customers will be notified that an update to SPC is available for download.  This is a LiveUpdate release only.  This update provides fixes for a small number of defects, as well as several major enhancements.

These enhancements include:

• New Security Audit functionality, and reports
• New Intrusion Detection System (IDS) signature reports
• An enhanced Specific Endpoint report
• SPC Web Interface security certificate management
• Updated browser compatibility

Full details are found in the SPC 2.1 Release notes (DOC4967...

Hi

I was using SEPM and NAC MR6MP3.

I decided to upgrade to version 12!!!

after upgrading SEPM and NAC to version 12 and assigning packages to the groups, I checked some clients,All SEP features like Antivirus,Sonar and NTP was running but Network Access Control (NAC) feature was not available and running on them.

I checked some documents about SEP 12 and it is a known issue in SEP 12 and unfortunately for me in NAC!

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

The issue occurs under the following conditions in upgrade process.

1.  You have an 11.x SEPM with packages assigned to the groups.  

2.  The packages have "Maintain existing client features when updating" unchecked

The solutions in this article...

InformationWeek recently published its 23rdannual InformationWeek 500 list where Symantec ranked #168.  The InformationWeek 500 is an annual listing of the most innovative users of business technology in the U.S.

InformationWeekidentifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies.  The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders. 

Symantec is keeping good company on the list this year ranking ahead of companies like Microsoft (#241), HP (#222) and Salesforce.com (#171). Companies like EMC, McAfee, NetApp and VMware were on the list as well but...