This is a frightening scenario, especially given the number of legacy Symantec users in the world. Please review your installs and patch/update accordingly.
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Blue Coat to be Acquired by Symantec for $4.65BN
This is an interesting move by Symantec and Bluecoat. Based on the article, it appears Bluecoat will be taking the lead from a boardroom perspective, which is probably a very good thing. We continue as an industry toward a world of 3 or 4 big players gobbling up all the good ideas and battling it out for IT security supremacy.
Symantec Antivirus products vulnerable to horrid overflow bug
Please review and patch your Symantec A/V products accordingly.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/symantec-antivirus-products-vulnerable-to-horrid-overflow-bug/
Attackers Using Social Engineering Emails to Deliver RATs to Indian, U.S., and UK SMBs
This is an interesting article detailing a social engineering campaign run by cyber crime entities and discovered by the team at Symantec.
