Symantec

Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) has made a 5.09% comeback from a 12-month low price of $24.94. It was seen 1.98% higher, changing the price to $26.21, when the closing bell rang on 03/26/2018. At recent session, the prices were hovering between $25.7 and $26.255. This company shares ...

Hussam Sidani, regional manager for Gulf, Symantec says cryptojacking is a rising threat to cyber and personal security. “The massive profit incentive puts people, devices and organisations at risk of unauthorised coinminers siphoning resources from their systems, further motivating criminals to infiltrate ...

Internet security firm Symantec has published their 23rd Internet Security Threat Report. The document identifies an increase in the incidents of cyber crime that involve cryptocurrency in some way. The most prominent examples are cryptojacking and ransomware attacks.

Hacking computers to surreptitiously siphon off processing power to mine for cryptocurrencies is on the rise according to Symantec. The cybersecurity company found an 8500 percent surge in so-called 'crypto jacking' cyber attacks in the final quarter of 2017, according to a new report. Out of all the hack ...

Symantec CIO Sheila Jordan tells John Kennedy that instant detection and response to cybersecurity threats is the only way forward in today's infosec world. Symantec CIO and senior vice-president Sheila Jordan joined the IT security giant in 2014 to drive its IT strategy and operations. A dynamic and ...

Symantec logo Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) was downgraded by equities researchers at BidaskClub from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday. SYMC has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Zacks Investment Research lowered ...

A report published this evening by Symantec outlines the rocky year consumers and business owners had online in 2017, covering everything from coin mining attacks and problems in the supply chain to ransomware, BEC attacks, and more. There was a shift in attack types and patterns as criminals ...

Many high profile UK sites still use Symantec certificates just days before Google will begin the process of dropping support for them with the next and upcoming releases of its Chrome browser. Google's looming disavowal of digital certificates issued by Symantec will occur across two effective dates, April ...

DigiCert reaches milestone for replacing Symantec certs DigiCert Inc. announced a major milestone: less than 1 percent of the top 1 million sites have yet to replace Symantec-issued certificates affected by upcoming browser distrust action. Mozilla released figures from its latest telemetry report earlier this ...

Finjan shares jumped yesterday on the news that the company had received the $65 million settlement payout from Symantec following the truce between the two businesses announced at the end of February. That sum, which is one of the largest received in settlement by an NPE in years, might increase ...

Symantec logo Meadow Creek Investment Management LLC increased its position in shares of Symantec Co. (NASDAQ:SYMC) by 5.9% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 92,718 shares of the technology ...

Law360 (March 15, 2018, 10:28 PM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld a decision that a data storage patent Intellectual Ventures accused Symantec of infringing is invalid for claiming a patent-ineligible abstract idea, even under a recent decision making such invalidations harder for accused infringers to win.

Google is urging website owners to take immediate action to replace digital certificates issued by Symantec that the company has previously identified as being untrustworthy. Starting with the April 17 release of Google's Chrome 66 browser, all Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) ...

DigiCert, which acquired Symantec's certificate business last August, announced Wednesday that approximately 20,000 Symantec certificates, including GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL brands, were to be revoked because their private keys had been exposed [DigiCert later revised the number to around ...

An Iran-based hacking group, called Chafer, is expanding its spying operations in the Middle East, according to a new report from Symantec. The cybersecurity firm said last year, Chafer attacked organizations in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Cybersecurity experts ...

Symantec has ended a promotion that saw it offer discounts on Norton-branded products to members of the US National Rifle Association (NRA). The promotion's web page at https://us.norton.com/nra has disappeared, but remains in the archives of the Wayback Machine, which reveals members were ...

Symantec, the software giant behind products like Norton AntiVirus, has severed a partnership with the National Rifle Association after public pressure. “Symantec has stopped its discount program with the National Rifle Association,” a company spokesperson told The Verge in a statement. No other ...

When Greg Clark was recruited to Symantec, he was the third CEO to take the job in three years. He had a lot to do to win the confidence of investors and to prove that he could revamp the 35-year-old cybersecurity giant. Now, more than a year later, earnings have improved, Clark has integrated a batch of ...

Torjus Gylstorff, Symantec's vice president of worldwide partner sales and worldwide customer success, tells Channel Partners that Symantec partnered with Microsoft to optimize a number of its security products and services to support their joint customers. The partnership creates new opportunities for ...

Finjan shares jumped yesterday on the news that the company had received the $65 million settlement payout from Symantec following the truce between the two businesses announced at the end of February. That sum, which is one of the largest received in settlement by an NPE in years, might increase ...

The vendor will grandfather its partners and legacy Symantec website security partners into the combined partner program at their current tiers and begin the first new training and certification workshops during Q2 of 2018. It says it plans to continue evolving the partner program based on partner input as it ...

While the conflict between Google and Symantec was more or less solved last Summer, the fallout from those decisions is about to be felt. While DigiCert and Symantec have been hurrying to get customers migrated to the DigiCert PKI, the deadline for when Google Chrome (as well as Mozilla Firefox and ...