Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

Re:Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday by jnazario on Saturday January 14, 2012 @10:04PM (#3466194)

last i saw symantec is saying this is old code:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/247376/symante...

and not currently running products: '"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code used in two of our older enterprise products has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued. The code involved is four and five years old," said Cris Paden, the company's senior manager for corporate communications.'

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Re:Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday by getsat on Saturday January 14, 2012 @10:53PM (#3466282)

It'll still be interesting to see if there's any specific code/comments in there for the government-produced trojans/backdoors that are allowed through.

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Re:Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday by levifig on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:29AM (#3466640)

I bet they rewrite their code every year… -.-

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Re:Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday by jnazario on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:48PM (#3487257)

update: symantec's claiming more source code stolen, now, in a corporate breach.

http://www.scmagazine.com/more-source-code-stolen-says-syman...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Symantec-Confirms-Source-C...

http://news.techworld.com/security/3330880/symantec-admits-s...

evidently pcAnywhere users are at serious risk (source code stolen).

commentary:

http://blogs.cio.com/security/16753/symantecs-new-explanatio...

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