The Internet opens huge opportunities for communication, sharing information, along with commerce and learning, but it also brings along significant risks, ... We want to offer users easy, step-by-step explanations and recommendations that will allow both individuals and small businesses to navigate safely and securely, armed with the knowledge and technology needed to prevent them from possibly becoming victims of cyber crime.
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We've already approached the IT-ISAC, a forum of security vendors and researchers, and asked them as to whether they can help us form an open discussion. It looks like they're willing to do that.Vincent Weafer
When malicious code could cause serious damage, Symantec and its peers often provide information to law-enforcement agencies such as the FBI, the U. S. Secret Service, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If they need an analysis done on a new threat, we'll help them, ... We provide them with intelligence that we have, but we don't chase criminals.
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We determined that a significant amount of these were new machines that were Christmas gifts going online and not getting security patches onto them.
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I think that probably the overarching theme we're looking at is that crime for profit motivation has really found the Internet.
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We have speculated that attackers would turn their attention to other platforms, and two back-to-back examples of malicious code targeting Macintosh OS X this week illustrates this emerging trend.
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It has been a nonevent. We have been tracking our consumer tech support Less than a handful of people worldwide have called in saying they might be infected.
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