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Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of any large business.

Symantec Corporation warns users about a new targeted attack against Office, potentially capable of exploiting an already patched vulnerability found in the most recent editions of the popular productivity suite published by Microsoft.

Starting last month an unidentified hacker - or maybe it's hackers - called Yamatough and believed to be part of a group called Lords of Dharmaraja and affiliated with Anonymous - from the looks of it not a native English speaker - or else a semi-literate - demanded $50,000 in blackmail from Symantec.

Equities research analysts at Goldman Sachs assumed coverage on shares of Symantec in a research note issued to investors on Friday.

Answer: You're wise to question that e-mail. Hackers did indeed break into the network of security developer Symantec and stole the source code for multiple security programs, including your Norton Internet Security.

There's a growing list of basic tasks users must perform. Many are recommended by Symantec Security Response .

With the recent update of its line of data backup and recovery offerings, Symantec Corp.

Russian IT security firm Kaspersky Lab has scrapped its idea to hold an initial public offering, the company's chief financial officer said.

Tagged as address book , Amazon , entertainment , hackers , iphone , movies , Netflix , Path , pcAnywhere , privacy , security , social network , source code , streaming , Symantec , TV , Viacom , video Today's news grab bag features trouble - in the form of competition and issues such as security and privacy - for some tech companies.

Symantec has opened its expanded Security Operations Center in Herndon to support the rapid growth of the Symantec Managed Security Services group.

Symantec has confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

Back in 2006 hackers managed to download source codes of Symantec software after successfully gaining access to Symantec's infrastructure.

The source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility has been released by a hacker on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers, Reuters has reported.

Verisign was repeatedly attacked in 2010 but the extent of what was stolen is unknown, and the company didn't even own up to it until late 2011.

Amazon.com Inc. : Nomura commented on reports that said Amazon.com will be cutting rates on data storage.

For a decade, Microsoft has been essentially flat. And this is close to true for all the companies in its ecosystem, both hardware companies like Hewlett Packard and software companies like Symantec .

Symantec, the owner of Norton Anti-Virus and other security software brands, said someone claiming to be part of Anonymous attempted to extort $50,000 in return for not posting code.

Hackers sought $50000 from Symantec Reuters By Frank Jack Daniel - Hackers sought $50000 from US anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an undisclosed law enforcement agency via Own an iPhone? Are you tapping into all it's power? PC Mike's ... (more)

The application is used as part of Norton Online Family , the award-winning online family safety service for PCs and Macs.

China's foreign ministry said today it hoped upcoming talks with the European Union could resolve a dispute over the region's airline emissions fee scheme, a day after it said Chinese airlines were banned from participating in the programme.