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QuickTime zero-day attacks intercepted: Researchers at Symantec have intercepted two different in-the-wild malware attacks targeting an unpatched code execution vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime media player. Honeypots in Symantec's DeepSight Threat Management System captured the first known case of exploit exploitation of the flaw on December 1st, 2007. The company has since...; Tags: Apple QuickTime, Vulnerability, Malware, Zero-day Bug, Attack, Exploitation, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2007-12-03
IE users beware: RealPlayer zero-day flaw under attack: See updates below with confirmation from RealNetworks and plans for an emergency RealPlayer patch Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day hole in RealNetworks' RealPlayer media player, a software program installed on tens of millions of Windows computers worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks, which began...; Tags: Attacker, Victim, Microsoft Internet Explorer, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Attack, Flaw, Exploitation, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2007-10-19
One of the Largest Global Financial Extranets Turns to Symantec for Insight on Threats: For the past few years BT Radianz, a private network moving transactions and information among the world's largest financial institutions, has used Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System to get a global perspective on Inter-net threats and vulnerabilities. The result is a savings in security staff time of up to $20,000...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Financial, Security; Case studies 2006-09-01
Symantec Security Update - July 2005: Worldwide and Japan: This white paper offers a brief summary of Internet security activity for the month of July 2005. The paper covers developments in vulnerabilities, attacks, malicious code and spam. This paper will discuss security developments in the Japan region over the past month. Symantec comprehensively tracks attack activity across the entire...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Security; White papers 2005-08-01
Symantec Security Update - July 2005: Worldwide and EMEA: This white paper offers a brief summary of Internet security activity for the month of July 2005. The paper covers developments in vulnerabilities, attacks, malicious code and spam. This paper will discuss security developments in the EMEA region over the past month. Symantec comprehensively tracks attack activity across the entire...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Security; White papers 2005-08-01

Reducing Troubleshooting Time 80 Percent at Symantec - With Symantec i3 Software - Improves Response Time for Customers: More than 500 databases enable Symantec Managed Security Services and Symantec DeepSight Threat Management Services to provide critical security information to Symantec's most security-conscious customers. Symantec i3 software allowed the teams behind these services to increase key application performance up to 15 percent, reduce troubleshooting time by 80 percent, save...; Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Security; Case studies
Customers Connect: Symantec Improves Managed Security Services With Its Own Application Performance Management Solution: In this webcast, the director of Global Infrastructure for Symantec's Security Response and Managed Security Services teams will describe the use of Symantec's application performance management software in this vital part of the company. Using Symantec i3for SQL Server, the company is able to maintain peak performance in Symantec's complex...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Application Performance Management, Security; Webcasts
Staying Ahead of Today's Security Threat Curve: In today's enterprise, the security threats arrive faster, and are more sophisticated than ever before. It's almost impossible to stay ahead of the threat curve. Trying to determine where the next attack is coming from and what its target might be is nearly a full time job, leaving little time...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Threat, Security; Webcasts
Getting Early Threat Warnings From Symantec Protects Major Hospital Network While Lowering TCO: The IT network for the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong serves millions of patients a year. After a major worm outbreak took it down for several hours in 2004, the security team turned to the Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System for early warnings and proactive security recommendations. Network disruption from...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Hospital, Network, TCO, Security; Case studies