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Symantec admits source code published by Anonymous is genuine
Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006.
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Anonymous claims to have released Symantec's pcAnywhere source code
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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Malware hijacks file host SendSpace to steal information
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval.
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RIM offering free PlayBook to attract Android developers to App World
Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry Playbook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS.
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Hungarian hotel hacker sentenced to 30 months in prison
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison last week.
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Anonymous hacks phone call between FBI and UK law enforcement
Hacktivist group Anonymous have released a 17-minute recording of a conference call between British and US law enforcement agents coordinating an ongoing investigation into the group.
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New Ice IX banking Trojan enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls
New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned.
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Trojan gang targets BT, Talk Talk and Sky customers
Criminals using a dangerous variant of the Zeus bank Trojan have started hacking BT, Talk Talk and Sky phone accounts as a way of redirecting phone calls from bank fraud services away from victims.
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Microsoft releases PST importer for Exchange
In a move to help administrators rid their networks of disparate personal email archives, Microsoft has released a tool for finding and importing Outlook PST files into modern Exchange environments. The tool will also help Microsoft rid itself of the archiving format, which it no longer sees as necessary.
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Symantec rescinds pcAnywhere remote software security guidance
Symantec has retracted its don't-use-pcAnywhere recommendation to owners of the remote access software.
