Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

http://news.yahoo.com ^ | 1-14-2012 | (Reporting By Frank Jack Daniel)

[Red Badger]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week 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.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Maybe it's not a matter of poor security, it's H1B workers. Hundreds of thousands here.. some are bound to have ulterior motives.

I just hope that PC hasn't made it possible for them to work on our most valuable defense systems.. but certainly it appears that secrets are finding their way overseas.

[Red Badger]

I like the new Ed Norton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton

[eyeamok]

Very easy to remove Norton, Install Linux

[SnuffaBolshevik]

[max americana]

“Good for Yama Tough for showing the world how inept Norton is at computer security.”\

I know. I used to work for them and Cyberdefender. They’re both similar. The difference is that Norton became lackadaisical in their business acumen and were not entirely listening to their software engineers. Cyberdefender was just pure s*am. You know those “I’ll clean your pc in minutes!” ads on radio? That’s Cyberdefender.

[TChad]

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19200-Symantec-Confirms-Norton-AV-Source-Code-Exposed.html