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Symantec Has Problems and PIFTS.EXE is its Name UPDATE: Forum is TitsUp
A recent update to the Symantec Norton Antivirus has somehow embarrassed Symantec. It included a file called PIFTS.EXE that attempted to send information to a Symantec stats server. It came to...
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Most Facepalm Inducing Marketing Campaign is From Symantec
Symantec has a ridiculous super-fail teamup contest featuring noted criminal pothead and gunslinger Snoop Dogg. They are running a contest called “hack is wack.” Winner gets snoop tickets and a laptop...
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I Remember 9-11
I was working in the Security Operations Center at Riptech on September 11, 2001. I was running late to work and listening to the many false reports over the local radio about how missiles were being...
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Symantec Gets a New Logo
Symantec Gets a New Logo, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak. Symantec ditched their glossy yin/yang symbol and have adopted a new corporate logo. It is a merge of the Verisign checkmark and a yellow...
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Symantec to Break Up After Gobbling Acquisitions?
After Symantec blew 10 Billion dollars plus a Billion in back taxes on bloatware Veritas, their stock has been on the floor. Despite numerous subsequent acquisitions, Symantec hasn’t been able to move...
View ArticleWhat Do Security Researchers Do?
If you aren’t too sure, then watch this. They have a job that seems to pay next to nothing, and they refuse to work for a real company. They claim they are professionals, but if they don’t get paid,...
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Symantec Confesses to P0wnage? Maybe Not?
Symantec has been p0wn3d according to hackers. And after strong denials of a penetration the hacker group came forward and promised to release PCAnywhere to blackhat for penetration testing. Suddenly...
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Symantec to Customers: Only a Fool Would Use PCAnywhere Now
Symantec released a whitepaper that quickly glosses over that they were pwn3d back in 2006 and lost the source code to their flagship products. Now they are recommending that the software be turned off...
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Symantec Admits Endpoint Security is a Failure
The New York Times being hacked by the Chinese is making the rounds of news these days. I’m mostly ‘meh’ about the story because the Chinese hack everyone and its really not a novel story anymore. But...
View ArticleMeet the Sophos Vigilante- Worst Corporate Mascot Ever
If you thought the Symantec Revolution song was gawd-awful, and it is, then get a load of the British, thumb-drive bandoleer-wearing fruitcake who protects corporate systems from viruses, courtesy of...
View ArticleSymantec Now Patching Windows XP Flaws
Earlier this month, Microsoft told everyone still too lazy to upgrade their operating system from Windows XP to something built in the 21st century, that they could go pound sand. No one paid by...
View ArticleCISSP Clownage
As I’d mentioned before, the new head of ISC2 once threatened to have my CISSP revoked because I dared to rightfully criticize the terroristic actions of another fellow member. Now this video below...
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Symantec Still TimeStamping Malware
Code signing is dead. Long live code signing. You make software that you want people to trust enough to install it. So you go to a Certificate Authority, pay anywhere between $150 to $1000 to prove...
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