Computer hacker threatens to release full Norton AntiVirus source code

[pwaldo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...urce-code.html

A computer hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' yesterday threatened to release the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton AntiVirus software.

‘This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton AntiVirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,’ Yama Tough posted via Twitter.

In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails.

The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.

Symantec Corp described the stolen source code as several years old, Fox News reported.

A spokesman for the company, Cris Paden, told the news site that Symantec didn’t have any other information, ‘particularly with regards to any new claims Anonymous is making.’

The company also had a lawsuit filed against it in the U.S. earlier in the week, accusing Symantic of encouraging customers to buy their product with scare tactics.

Might want to keep an eye on this if you still use Norton for protection

[andrewhoya]

Heh. That's my dad's job- to make sure the Indian servers aren't vulnerable.