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Businesses looking at using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for pay-as-you-go servers can now add Symantec security, backup and storage protection.
Admins can now reclaim unused data blocks, return them to a pool
Symantec Corp. today announced several enhancements to its storage management suite, its cluster file and cluster server system, including the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as integration with Hyper-V.
Security upgrades to three of its flagship products
Symantec has announced that it has enhanced three of its flagship products – Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server – with support for migrating data into and out of solid state drives and the ability to reclaim unused storage. In addition, the company has enhanced the failover capabilities of Veritas Cluster File System to work with structured data in Oracle, Sybase or IBM DB2 applications.
'Bredolab' Trojan rides fake reset messages, reaches at least 735,000 users
A massive bot-based attack has been hitting Facebook users, with nearly three-quarters of a million users receiving fake password reset messages, according to security researchers.
Symantec global CIO David Thompson suggests a US-style cybersecurity role could help prevent attacks like Anonymous' recent DDoS attack on Prime Minster's Web site.
Symantec global CIO David Thompson suggests a US-style cybersecurity role could help prevent attacks like Anonymous' recent DDoS attack on Prime Minster's Web site.
Symantec's Zulfikar Ramzan checks in on last year's predictions and IDs emerging trends in malware, phishing, spam and more
The effects of cybercrime are far reaching. It would be a difficult task to find someone who has never been affected by malicious Internet activity, or who does not at the very least know someone who has been negatively impacted by cybercriminals.
Last week's update caused crashes for less than 1 percent of Norton users
Symantec has posted a software fix after hundreds of users reported problems with a buggy update of the company's flagship Norton AntiVirus software.
Mission critical apps and cost of down-time major drivers
CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.
Symantec is tapping MessageLabs' expertise in software as a service to develop more hosted products
Symantec has taken a relatively hands-off approach with its integration of hosted messaging provider MessageLabs since its acquisition of the company in November 2008, according to MessageLabs' former CEO.
Some spammers are dropping the use of botnets in favor of massive spam blasts
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported Tuesday that unsolicited e-mail made up 90.4 percent of messages on corporate networks last month.
'Just another day at the office' for spammers, says one researcher
Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security experts warned Monday.
A new Symantec survey finds 98 percent have dealt with the pain and loss of a recent cyber attack.
A new Symantec survey finds 98 percent have dealt with the pain and loss of a recent cyber attack.
Symantec is developing a new computer service to help tech gurus connect with friends and family to fix PCs.
Symantec has developed a way for geeks to reach out to friends and family over the Internet and fix their computers.
Symantec is the latest company to fall prey to a Romanian hacker who has been finding SQL injection bugs in security sites.
A Romanian hacker who has spent the past few weeks exposing a common, but dangerous, Web programming error on security vendors Web sites says he's found a SQL injection flaw on Symantec's Web site. But Symantec says it's not a security issue.
Builds on buyouts of nSuite, Altiris, AppStream
Symantec Tuesday unveiled Endpoint Virtualization Suite, its set of server-based tools for controlling and delivering laptop and desktop application environments through flexible online provisioning.
