Date:10/01/12
Symantec Corp.'s Norton Antivirus software and its source code were not compromised on Thursday and fragments of the company's enterprise security program that were posted on the Internet were out of date, the software's publisher said late Friday.
No Norton products or source code were the target of the attack, which emerged Wednesday, said Symantec spokesman Cris Paden.
Norton Antivirus is the leading product in Symantec's $2 billion consumer software business. It is used by 150 million customers worldwide.
Paden said code to two Symantec Antivirus products for enterprise customers was posted to the Internet. But the code was about five years old and posed no threat to users with the latest updates.
"We have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions," said Paden.
Cupertino-based Symantec now believes the group in India, calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja, is affiliated with the information activist group Anonymous.
That group has been linked to several attacks on computer networks in the past year, including a December assault on security and risk analysis firm Stratfor, based in Austin, Texas.
On Wednesday, the group posted a Symantec description of how Norton Antivirus worked. Symantec said the 2,700-word document was a general description of the software from 12 years ago and didn't threaten security.
A day later, the group posted software code, which Symantec confirmed was for two enterprise security products from 2007 and 2008. One product is discontinued and the other has been extensively updated, Paden said, rendering the old code useless.
"We've been monitoring for any suspicious activity or traffic, but there's been nothing," said Paden."We recommend that users keep their product version updated, which will ensure protection against any new threats that might materialize as a result of this incident."
Symantec shares rose 0.8% for the week to $15.78, compared to a 1.1% gain for the broader S&P Technology Index.
In their original post to the site Pastebin.com, the group maintains it discovered the information in a hack of India's military computer network. Paden said Symantec wouldn't comment on the source of the information the group acquired.
The Lords of Dharmaraja haven't claimed responsibility for computer hacking in the past. Dharmaraja is a name for a high-ranking monk in Tibetan Buddhism.
Symantec says hack poses no threat to its security franchise
Symantec Corp.'s Norton Antivirus software and its source code were not compromised on Thursday and fragments of the company's enterprise security program that were posted on the Internet were out of date, the software's publisher said late Friday.No Norton products or source code were the target of the attack, which emerged Wednesday, said Symantec spokesman Cris Paden.
Norton Antivirus is the leading product in Symantec's $2 billion consumer software business. It is used by 150 million customers worldwide.
Paden said code to two Symantec Antivirus products for enterprise customers was posted to the Internet. But the code was about five years old and posed no threat to users with the latest updates.
"We have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions," said Paden.
Cupertino-based Symantec now believes the group in India, calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja, is affiliated with the information activist group Anonymous.
That group has been linked to several attacks on computer networks in the past year, including a December assault on security and risk analysis firm Stratfor, based in Austin, Texas.
On Wednesday, the group posted a Symantec description of how Norton Antivirus worked. Symantec said the 2,700-word document was a general description of the software from 12 years ago and didn't threaten security.
A day later, the group posted software code, which Symantec confirmed was for two enterprise security products from 2007 and 2008. One product is discontinued and the other has been extensively updated, Paden said, rendering the old code useless.
"We've been monitoring for any suspicious activity or traffic, but there's been nothing," said Paden."We recommend that users keep their product version updated, which will ensure protection against any new threats that might materialize as a result of this incident."
Symantec shares rose 0.8% for the week to $15.78, compared to a 1.1% gain for the broader S&P Technology Index.
In their original post to the site Pastebin.com, the group maintains it discovered the information in a hack of India's military computer network. Paden said Symantec wouldn't comment on the source of the information the group acquired.
The Lords of Dharmaraja haven't claimed responsibility for computer hacking in the past. Dharmaraja is a name for a high-ranking monk in Tibetan Buddhism.
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