Webinar: Managing Healthcare Mobility - Effectively Leveraging Mobility to...
Learn how to mitigate the risk associated with the rise of mobility - smartphones and tablets - and how these devices can securely and effectively be leveraged to drive better patient outcomes and...
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Android Tapsnake Mobile Scareware: Ads Push Antivirus
Recently we have observed a series of mobile ads intended to scare users into believing that their device is infected with a threat called “Trojan: MobileOS/Tapsnake”. Figure 1. Fake Tapsnake infection...
View ArticleTen Reasons Symantec is Saying Thanks to 2013
Ten Reasons Symantec is Saying Thanks to 2013
View ArticleDisplaying Volume and Disk Sizes in Human Friendly Format (MB, GB & TB) with...
Having used Storage Foundation for some time, I take for granted the interpreting of disk and volume sector sizes into a more human friendly format such as Gigabyte (GB) & Terabyte (TB)....
View ArticleWhat are MPs and RUs in Symantec Product Releases?
Release Updates (RUx) typically contain a significant number of fixes and may include feature-work or enhancements. The current Release Update is considered the latest release of the product and is...
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Android Tapsnake モバイルスケアウェア: 偽ウイルス対策アプリを宣伝する広告
最近、デバイスが「Trojan: MobileOS/Tapsnake」という脅威に感染していると思い込ませてユーザーを脅そうとする一連のモバイル広告が確認されています。 図 1. Tapsnake への感染を通知する偽の警告 このマルウェア感染警告は偽物です。Tapsnake は Android を狙う比較的古い脅威（シマンテックでは 2010...
View ArticleConnect Dev Notes: 24 Dec 2013
Updates deployed to the Connect production servers as a result of the code sprint that ended 24 December 2013.User Facing: DesktopAdded the ability to browse from one post to the next in the "My...
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Hackers Spend Christmas Break Launching Large Scale NTP-Reflection Attacks
Over the last few weeks Symantec has seen a significant spike in NTP reflection attacks accross the Internet. NTP is the Network Time Protocol, it is a relatively obscure protocol that runs over port...
View ArticleiOS vs. Android Engagement
In 2012, the Android operating system ran on 75% of the smartphones shipped in the third quarter. Apple's iOS was second with 15% marketshare. (source)In December 2012, 64% of Android devices were...
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GeoTrust Redesign
We have been working on a new design for www.geotrust.com, let us know what you think of the new design in the comments below.
View ArticleWorkaround to Event 57802 and 57804, catalog mistmatch (Following a...
Workarround to Event 57802 and 57804, catalog mistmatch
View ArticleHow to find text within database tables
Here is a handy SQL query that will allow you to search your database tables for a particular word or words (tested against SQL 2008 R2): **********************************CREATE TABLE myTable99...
View ArticleW32.Sality - Support Perspective and Battle Plan
I guess we need to face it. Sality is here to stay.We have been dealing with new Sality variants for more than 8 years and the Sality.AE family for a little over 5…the variants keep coming. It has...
View ArticleCustomer Wins Industry Award for Data Insight Project
The Symantec Data Insight team is proud to announce that BNY Mellon won a prestigious industry award, the Information Security Executive (ISE) North America Project of the Year in the Commercial...
View ArticleNumber of 9's
Ever wondered terminology of Number of 9's in SLA. See the actual downtime offered by multiple vendors in market.Number of 9’sAvailability PercentageTotal Annual Downtime299%3 days, 15 hours399.90%8...
View ArticleWorkaround to 7.1.2 MP1.1 v7RU CMDB rule creation issue
After a clean install of ITMS 7.1.2 MP1.1 v7RU, it was found that it was not possible to create a new CMDB rule as its first dropdown list failed to open.To workaround this issue, you need to clone a...
View ArticleSecuring the Internet of Things - where's the risk?
Based on discussions we are having across our customer base, we know that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing phenomenon. It’s not particularly new - after all, organisations have been monitoring...
View ArticleNew variant of Cryptolocker spreads over removable drives
Last week Trend has reported about a new variant of Cryptolocker worm. In Trend Micro terminology -> WORM_CRILOCK.A (http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/us/malware/worm_crilock.a) - this is being...
View Article2013 - An Enterprise Vault Review
I decided to write a 2013 Review ready for the new year. 2013 has been a busy year for Enterprise Vault, and I’ll cover that in this post. Part way through researching this post I got an email about...
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