Tag Archives: symantec

Apr
01

Spam mail cut by a third after Rustock take-down

Global spam levels have dropped by a third, according to Symantec’s March 2011 MessageLabs intelligence report. And this is mainly due to the take-down of the Rustock botnet, which we reported.. more
Feb
21

Government cyber-crime report just sales puffery

You might recall that last week, consultant firm Detica produced a report on the overall cost of cyber-crime in the UK, in conjunction with the government Office of Cyber Security. The.. more
Feb
17

Norton Cybercrime Index launched

Symantec has announced the launch of the Norton Cybercrime Index. The NCI (let’s acronym it, sounds even more high-powered then) provides consumers around the globe with an at-a-glance warning system of.. more
Jan
10

Global spam levels witness a resurgence

Last week, security firm Symantec noted a large and continued drop in spam levels since Christmas. Spam levels were at 75 billion messages a day worldwide at the start of December, and on Christmas day 2010, they more than halved to 30 billion. And the.. more
Jan
06

Spam levels dropped at Christmas

Global spam levels have plummeted over the last couple of weeks, according to one security firm. Symantec has been keeping a close watch on spam levels, which dropped like turkeys over the Christmas period. In fact, Symantec reckons there were 200 billion spam messages flying.. more
Nov
08

Investors call for Symantec to split

Symantec, which has been the largest independent security firm since Intel acquired McAfee, is facing calls from investors for it to be broken up. Investors believe that the company would be worth between $22 million and $26 million if individual units were spun off. As.. more
Sep
09

Crime affects 65% of Internet users

More than 65% of the 7,000 adults surveyed for Symantec’s Norton Cybercrime report had been victims of online crime. In China a whopping 83 per cent had been attacked by cybercriminals. Brazil and India were in second place with 76 per cent of respondents affected.. more
Aug
26

Sophos and Symantec issue Scareware warnings

Security firm Symantec has warned travelers using public internet-access terminals to be aware of possible Scareware attacks. One of its software engineers noticed that a terminal in an unnamed UK airport was infected with “Defense Center Installer” which issues a false warning that a user.. more
Aug
25

UK moves up to fourth in world spam league

The UK is on its way up in the world, but unfortunately, the particular global league which we’re leaping and bounding up is the one that measures a nation’s spam output. These were the findings of anti-virus experts Symantec in the company’s just published MessageLabs.. more
Aug
25

Symantec reports increase in UK spam

The latest report from Symantec Hosted Services lists the UK as one of the top four countries in terms of the highest volume of spam sent from infected PCs. Spam sent from the UK almost doubled in August according to Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence report, to.. more