http://www.itworld.com/symantec xx http://www.itworld.com/security/82481/symantec-ties-dlp-software-third-party-security-tools Symantec has updated its Data-Loss Prevention Suite so that if the software finds a data issue that needs fixing, it can apply third-party encryption and digital-rights management (DRM) controls to the problem. http://www.itworld.com/security/82481/symantec-ties-dlp-software-third-party-security-tools#comments Security News DLP drm Symantec Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:00:50 -0400 ITworld staff 82481 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/81455/symantec-calls-spywareguard-and-antivirus-top-scareware-threats Fake security software "SpywareGuard" and "AntiVirus" are said to be the top two scareware programs out of about 250 fake security programs detected, according to a Symantec report. http://www.itworld.com/security/81455/symantec-calls-spywareguard-and-antivirus-top-scareware-threats#comments Security News scareware Symantec Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:42:42 -0400 ITworld staff 81455 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/81403/symantec-rogue-security-software-big-business-crooks The bogus ads are everywhere. A pop-up tells you: "Your computer may be infected" and urges you to download security software that will scan your computer for viruses, protect it from future infection or both. The problem is most of these products are scams that give you software which is useless. In some cases, the software is even dangerous because it downloads malicious code onto your computer. http://www.itworld.com/security/81403/symantec-rogue-security-software-big-business-crooks#comments Security News scams scareware Symantec Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:24:20 -0400 ITworld staff 81403 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/79827/symantec-launch-object-based-file-storage-service-next-year Symantec today released a software product that will allow enterprise-class companies to create a file-based cloud storage infrastructures capable of serving up petabytes of data from a single domain name space, and from commodity x86 hardware. http://www.itworld.com/saas/79827/symantec-launch-object-based-file-storage-service-next-year#comments SaaS Storage News cloud storage Symantec Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:44:19 -0400 ITworld staff 79827 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/79511/anti-malware-test-hand-symantec-swats-microsoft-security-essentials Armed with an anti-malware test report that pits Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2009 against Microsoft's just-released Security Essentials software, a top Symantec engineer ripped into the new consumer anti-malware as an unimpressive re-cycling of Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare technology. http://www.itworld.com/security/79511/anti-malware-test-hand-symantec-swats-microsoft-security-essentials#comments Security News antivirus Microsoft Symantec Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:17:08 -0400 ITworld staff 79511 at http://www.itworld.com