Tag: Symantec

One of the largest certificate authorities announced that the vast majority of the top 1 million websites had replaced the digital certificates major browsers plan to phase out in the coming months.

According to a recent survey by Symantec, the risk posed by shadow IT is growing, and CIOs are in denial about the scale of the problem.

In July, the global spam rate reached the highest level researchers had observed since March 2015, likely due to a rise in self-spreading email malware.

Digital certificates are used to authenticate both sides of a browser connection. It's a good first step, but certificates do not assure absolute trust.

In response to alleged violations, Google announced that its Chrome web browser will not trust an SSL certificate from Symantec for more than 279 days.

The backdoor Trojan known as Stegoloader infects its victims through a website offering fraudulent activation keys for pirated software.

Symantec's Blue Coat security firm recently discovered an alarming spike in malware samples utilizing SSL since October 2015.

A security researcher at Google recently found more than two dozen severe Symantec vulnerabilities affecting several security products.

An antivirus security tool from Symantec has a serious vulnerability that can be leveraged for easy exploits if users don't patch immediately.

A recent threat report from Symantec found that zero-day vulnerabilities were found about once a week in 2015, representing a big increase from 2014.