The company that claims it can keep you safe from all manner of threats and hackers was itself hacked. We find this telling and amusing. The self-proclaimed king of Internet security Symantec (the company that makes Norton products) must be red-faced today as a group of hackers posted the entire source code for Norton Anti-virus which was stolen from Norton’s own servers.<\/p>\n
This makes us wonder: If they can’t protect themselves – how on Earth can they protect you. We’ve been telling our readers for years that Norton isn’t one of the best – but it is one of the most expensive. There are free anti-virus programs which rate more highly in system protection (according to two different independent testing labs) than Norton Anti-virus. Our question to our readers has always been: If you can use free anti-virus that protects better or at least as well as Norton – why would you pay for Norton? Norton isn’t the best. Norton is a resource hog. Norton is expensive. And today, Norton must be red-faced. Norton’s response to being hacked was aptly political: “It’s no big deal.” But you know heads must be rolling at Symantec today.<\/p>\n
Our question today is: If Norton can’t protect itself, how well can it protect you?<\/p>\n
The following is from Gismodo.com:<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, a hacking group calling itself “The Lords of Dharmaraja” claimed that it had obtained the confidential source code of Norton AntiVirus and that it would release the full code on Tuesday (17 January 2012)…<\/p>\n
You can read the rest at Gismodo<\/a><\/u>. The article was published yesterday (16 January 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The company that claims it can keep you safe from all manner of threats and hackers was itself hacked. We find this telling and amusing. The self-proclaimed king of Internet security Symantec (the company that makes Norton products) must be red-faced today as a group of hackers posted the entire source code for Norton Anti-virus which was stolen\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}