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Symantec Tried to Buy Back Stolen Source Code for $50,000, Says It was a Sting Operation

Posted 02/07/2012 at 8:19am | by Paul Lilly

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Don't retire your home brewed aluminum foil deflector beanie just yet, there may be occasions where you'll still want to wear it. Take Symantec's source code snafu, for instance. When word got out that hackers had stolen certain source code from Symantec, the security firm initially brushed off the incident in the public eye saying the stolen code only applied to outdated software from several years ago. Not long after, Symantec advised pcAnywhere customers to stop using their product until it could release a patch. But what's really telling are a series of emails Symantec and the hacker responsible for the theft exchanged with each other.

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Symantec Stomps Out Anonymous Source Code Threat with a Security Patch

Posted 01/31/2012 at 12:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Symantec had promised to release a security patch for its pcAnywhere software to neutralize known vulnerabilities arising from the theft of certain source code, and the security firm has now made good on its word. The first patch was actually rolled out on Monday, January 23, 2012 for pcAnywhere 12.5 users, but there's another update now available to support pcAnywhere 12.0 and 12.1.

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Symantec Investigates Stolen Source Code, Recommends Disabling pcAnywhere

Posted 01/25/2012 at 1:19pm | by Paul Lilly

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Less than three weeks ago, security firm Symantec publicly downplayed the theft of a portion of its source code and said the stolen bits were from a 2006 enterprise version of its software. The message at the time was that the theft didn't affect Symantec's Norton products for consumer customers, nor were enterprise users as risk. In other words, chillax. Now Symantec is making the unusual recommendation of telling people not to use its pcAnywhere software.

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