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Chrome 66 Distrusts Older Symantec Certificates
2018-04-18 15:13

Released in the stable channel on Tuesday, Chrome 66 removes trusts in website certificates that Symantec issued before June 1, 2016, while also bringing a trial of Site Isolation, and patching 62...

Symantec Releases Targeted Attack Analytics Tool
2018-04-16 14:56

Symantec is releasing its own targeted attack analytics (TAA) tool to existing Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers free of additional charge. It is the same tool that Symantec's...

Vast Majority of Symantec Certificates Already Replaced: DigiCert
2018-03-15 12:35

Less than 1% of the top 1 million websites have yet to replace Symantec-issued certificates before major browsers distrust them, DigiCert announced this week. Last year, DigiCert bought the...

Firefox 63 to Distrust All Symantec Root Certificates
2018-03-13 13:28

Mozilla this week detailed its plans to completely distrust Symantec root certificates in Firefox 63, set to arrive in October 2018. read more

Symantec Patches Vulnerability in Management Console
2017-11-21 21:26

Symantec has released an update to address a directory traversal vulnerability in the Symantec Management Console. read more

macOS Malware Spread Via Fake Symantec Blog
2017-11-21 18:25

A newly observed variant of the macOS-targeting Proton malware is spreading through a blog spoofing that of legitimate security company Symantec. read more

DigiCert Addresses Mozilla's Concerns on Symantec CA Acquisition
2017-11-01 14:13

DigiCert has addressed the concerns raised by Mozilla and others regarding the company’s acquisition of Symantec’s certificate business after some web browser vendors announced that certificates...

Mozilla Raises Concerns Over DigiCert Acquiring Symantec CA
2017-10-31 14:32

Mozilla has raised some concerns regarding DigiCert acquiring Symantec’s website security and related public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions after major web browser vendors announced that...

Symantec Claims It Is Leapfrogging the Competition
2017-10-26 11:40

The latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection, SEP 14.1, adds new capabilities to the signatureless machine learning malware detection SEP product it introduced last year, and integrates with...

Spam Rate Hit 55% in September: Symantec
2017-10-06 16:17

The spam rate of overall email dropped slightly over the past couple of months to 55% in September, but remains above the year average, a new Symantec report reveals. read more