Posted by: prnews on: November 9, 2009
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced its support for Microsoft Windows 7, with its Norton-branded consumer products and enhanced versions of its enterprise security, backup and recovery and migration technologies. Working closely with Microsoft, Symantec has engineered solutions to help Microsoft customers—from consumers to large enterprises—simplify the migration to Windows 7 and build a safer, [...]
Posted by: prnews on: October 31, 2009
After bringing to market a unique approach to the fight against cybercrime with the award-winning Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010, today Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) unveiled data proving the effectiveness of the powerful new protection model codenamed “Quorum,” now available as part of the Norton 360 version 4.0 beta. The upcoming [...]
Posted by: prnews on: October 22, 2009
Today’s online thieves will stop at nothing to steal anything you’ve got: your money, your identity, even your good name. And their methods are getting more devious and sophisticated every day. In fact, Symantec blocked an average of more than 245 million attempted malicious code attacks across the globe each month during 2008 .
Phony emails, [...]
Posted by: prnews on: February 6, 2009
Symantec Corp. announced Symantec Endpoint Encryption 7.0, providing advanced encryption for desktops, laptops and removable storage devices. Symantec Endpoint Encryption offers a scalable security solution that prevents unauthorized access to endpoints by delivering strong encryption and access control technologies. Encryption and authentication are both transparent to the end-user, performed with minimal performance impact [...]
Posted by: prnews on: February 3, 2009
Symantec Corp. reported the results of its third quarter of fiscal year 2009, ended Jan. 2, 2009. GAAP revenue for the quarter was $1.51 billion and non-GAAP revenue was $1.54 billion. Symantec delivered stronger than expected results on all of its key financial metrics in the fiscal third quarter.
Quarterly Results
GAAP Results: GAAP net loss [...]
Posted by: prnews on: November 24, 2008
Symantec Corp. released its Report on the Underground Economy. The report details an online underground economy that has matured into an efficient, global marketplace in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold, and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars. The report [...]
Posted by: prnews on: November 19, 2008
In this report, economy- related topics played a major role, as spammers continue to utilize it as a ruse to deliver their spam messages. In general, spam levels averaged in at 76.4 percent of all email messages in October– a decrease from a high of 80 percent in August.
Specific Trends Highlighted in the Report
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Posted by: prnews on: October 22, 2008
During the previous two State of Spam Reports, Symantec noted an increase in the amount of spam messages containing URL links to malicious code. Now, with the October 2008 report, Symantec highlight just how significant this trend is becoming. The increase began in May 2008 and continues to the present. During this period, there has [...]
