Trade Broadcom sells Symantec services unit to Accenture Sale comes just months after closure of $10.7bn acquisition 8 Jan
Trade Symantec sells enterprise security for $10.7bn to Broadcom Cyber security vendor confirms enterprise security offload 9 Aug
Pro Symantec warns of rise in targeted ransomware attacks Overall decrease in ransomware infections offset by attacks against businesses in 2018 22 Jul
Trade Acting Symantec CEO urges channel improvement Hill calls for improvements in speed to market and opportunities being tackled 13 May
Trade Symantec makes double acquisition to boost endpoint security Appthority purchase gives customers ability to analyse mobile apps for malicious capabilities 6 Nov
Trade Symantec gives Arrow EMEA strategic distribution status Deal follows security vendor's Blue Coat acquisition 19 Sep
Pro Uncertainty remains on GDPR compliance A new survey finds organisations are still uncertain as to whether GDPR applies to their organisation, as TechFire tackles the uncertainty 15 Sep
Pro Hackers have access to sabotage power in Europe and US Symantec report claims hacker access to energy firms 8 Sep
Pro New ransomware attack is going global Petya variant ‘Petrwrap’ wreaks havoc from Ukraine to Ireland 27 Jun
Pro DNS record will help prevent unauthorised SSL certs From September, certificate authorities will be required to honour a new DNS record that specifies who is authorised to issue certificates for a... 13 Apr
Pro Suspected CIA spy tools linked to hacks in 16 countries Symantec has connected WikiLeaks' dumped CIA files to ‘Longhorn’ hacking team 11 Apr
Pro Google may distrust third of Web SSL certs in Symantec spat Google loses confidence in largest certificate authority 27 Mar
Trade Symantec to acquire identity protection firm LifeLock for $2.3bn Acquisition aims to create 'world's largest consumer security business' 21 Nov
Life Android Trojan blocks victim from alerting banks Symantec has noticed a “call-barring” function in a newer version of Android malware 19 Jul
Pro Symantec bugfest highlights the dangers of security software Security software has worse flaws than the average application 6 Jul
Life Flaws in Symantec products expose millions of computers to hacking High severity vulnerabilities in enterprise and consumer products could have allowed hackers to execute malicious code on computers with no user... 30 Jun
Pro Server software a soft target for ransomware Samsam spread by attacking unpatched JBoss app servers 6 Apr
Pro Symantec fixes high-risk flaws in its Endpoint Protection Security tools can have vulnerabilities and need regular patching too 22 Mar
Trade Symantec partner caught running tech support scam Brazen scheme charged consumers five times the list price for Norton security software 26 Jan
Pro Google to revoke trust in a Symantec root certificate Website owners and developers who have certificates linked to the soon-to-be-retired CA should get new ones 15 Dec
Pro Symantec’s first antimalware software for vShield VMware's vShield architecture, broadly defined as a set of APIs for various security functions, has been something of a contentious issue in the past 30 Nov
Trade Google threatens action over Symantec-issued certificates following botched investigation First investigation found 23 test certs were issued for domain names belonging to Google, Opera and others 29 Oct
Pro Researchers uncover more Regin spy tool modules Symantec researchers find 49 new modules for supposed NSA cyberespionage malware 1 Sep
Trade Symantec sells Veritas for $8bn to investment group Agreement follows year-long process as focuses switches to the cloud 11 Aug
Trade Espion first European firm to achieve Symantec e-discovery expert competency Irish company makes mark in e-discovery 4 Aug
Pro Symantec reveals new mass surveillance trojan Regin displays a rarely seen degree of ‘technical competence’ 24 Nov
Pro Five Iranian industrial automation companies were first Stuxnet victims Third parties targeted to get to Natanz uranium enrichment plant, say researchers 13 Nov
Pro Symantec sees rise in high-traffic DDoS attacks Most common targets are gaming, software and media companies 23 Oct
Trade Symantec’s board votes to split the company in two One company will focus on security and the other on information management 10 Oct
Trade Symantec reportedly in talks to split into storage and security units Plans in line with similar strategies from HP, eBay 8 Oct
Pro Attack targets European automobile industry Attackers sending e-mails containing information-stealing Trojan to customer service departments, says Symantec 26 Aug
Pro Symantec: New malware makes virtual machines less secure Automated systems have trouble detecting patient malicious programs 13 Aug
Pro Zero-day flaws discovered in Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Flaws could be used to gain full system access, says Offensive Security 30 Jul
Pro Energy providers unwittingly deploy malware through software updates Symantec warns that Dragonfly campaign sought to gain persistent access to energy suppliers 1 Jul
Pro Antivirus is “dead” says Symantec security head As firm launches more services and cloud security, is AV dead or simply not profitable? 7 May
Trade Symantec fires CEO, appoints interim replacement Bennett took over security and backup company less than two years ago 21 Mar
Trade Hitachi to resell Symantec enterprise products Enterprise customers to benefit from end-to-end arrangement 24 Feb
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