Symantec's Source Code was Stolen 6 Years Ago
From Wired’s Threat Level:
The company surprised the public last week when it disclosed that hackers had obtained source code for its pcAnywhere software and other products, and that the code had likely been stolen in a six-year-old breach that Symantec had never disclosed.
Symantec said in its announcement that users should disable pcAnywhere until the company had time to update the software to ensure that hackers are unable to exploit holes they might find in the code…
What was unclear from Symantec’s disclosure, however, was just how long Symantec had known its source code had been breached. The statement left open the question of whether Symantec knew in 2006 that its source code was taken and only disclosed it this month after hackers claimed to have it.
Speaking of Symantec, here’s a screenshot of their software running on my last work machine which required it:
Good job keeping process-hungry malware off the machine, Symantec.
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