Cybercrooks are actively taking advantage of what appears to be a previously undisclosed security flaw in Microsoft Word, according to an advisory issued by Symantec.

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While antispam filters have become more sophisticated in the last year, and spam threats have emerged and dissipated, it is clear that spammers are not giving up the spam fight. The Symantec July 2008…
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The offering from Symantec is much larger than the scope of this review.

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While antispam filters have become more sophisticated in the last year, and spam threats have emerged and dissipated, it is clear that spammers are not giving up the spam fight. The Symantec July 2008…
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Trend Micro?s CEO threw down the gauntlet to her competitors last week, proclaiming that hackers are ahead of the game and that the anti-virus industry ?sucks?.Chief exec Eva Chen, who co-founded the Tokyo, Japan headquartered-firm in 1988 with Steve Chang, announced last Wednesday a radical shift in business strategy for Trend Micro?s anti-virus software that [...]

(Source: Symantec) Businesses face a growing challenge to ensure that the IT environment is properly protected. Backup Exec 12 integrates with other applications in the Symantec family of products, to complement your current data protection strategy, keep your data securely backed up and make it recoverable when you need it most.
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Symantec acquired online file backup and recovery vendor SwapDrive, following a similar move by EMC, which acquired online backup provider Mozy last fall.

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Symantec announced it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.’s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization platform. The company also made several upgrades it it Veritas NetBackup product.

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Symantec announced it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization platform. The company also made several upgrades it it Veritas NetBackup product.

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(Source: Symantec) While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid, the location of data more dispersed, and the linkage between data sets more complex. In this new white paper, learn about a data deduplication technology from Symantec, that helps customers address all data protection challenges.

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(Source: Symantec) This paper begins with a brief overview of the problems of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) in the virtual environment, then presents several fundamental criteria for evaluating HA/DR solutions and reviews the components, architecture, and functional characteristics of two that are designed to protect critical applications on VMware ESX: VMware [...]

Reversing an earlier warning, Symantec today said that “suspicious behavior” by a captured exploit led it to mistakenly conclude that the latest stand-alone versions of Adobe’s Flash Player are vulnerable to attacks from Chinese servers.

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