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  • YamaTough Source code theft: Symantec and the $50 000 ransom February 07th, 2012 - 01:46 pm ET A computer hacker has provided details of emails in which Symantec appeared ready to pay 50 000 dollars to get their stolen source code back. According to the editor, this was ...
  • Réseau botnets Kelihos: no resurrection, but new malware February 06th, 2012 - 12:34 pm ET Microsoft has denied that the Kelihos botnet is back in operation. A new malware that shares similar traits with Kelihos has appeared though.
  • Verisign-logo Multiple hacks against the .com manager February 06th, 2012 - 01:29 am ET VeriSign has admitted that they were hacked numerous times in 2010. This revelation has come late for the .com manager who had previously believed that their DNS infrastructure ...
  • Réseau botnets Botnet: Kelihos resuscitated February 02nd, 2012 - 01:34 pm ET Dismantled by Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs, the Kelihos botnet is showing signs of life.
  • Tux lit un journal Linux: a lot of hullabaloo about a vulnerability January 28th, 2012 - 05:45 am ET A lot of noise has been made about a security vulnerability affecting the Linux core. The fault has been corrected and Linux editors are updating all of their systems after ...
  • Symantec-logo Source code theft: Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere January 26th, 2012 - 09:15 am ET Following the release of source code stolen in 2006, Symantec has recommended to their clients to no longer use pcAnywhere until an update has been released.
  • McAfee-saas-total-protection McAfee: security service bypassed by spam January 19th, 2012 - 10:55 am ET A fault in McAfee SaaS Total Protection allows a computer to be transformed into a spam relay.
  • Symantec-logo Symantec’s source code was hacked January 18th, 2012 - 12:15 pm ET Symantec has back tracked on their initial declaration, admitting that their own servers were in fact hacked… in 2006.
  • koobface-suspects Koobface worm: authors unmasked, not worried January 18th, 2012 - 11:27 am ET The Russian authors of the Koobface – an anagram of Facebook – have apparently been unmasked.
  • Symantec-logo Symantec’s source code stolen January 09th, 2012 - 02:09 pm ET Security solutions editor Symantec has confirmed that the source code of two of their old enterprise products has been stolen.