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Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

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Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software.

"This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter.
In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.


Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday | Reuters

Probably not good news for Norton users.....

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Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software.

"This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter.
In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.


Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday | Reuters

Probably not good news for Norton users.....

or other a/v users - weren't there a few other a/v program's complete source code hacked recently?

it's the old maxim "never leave your source code on an indian government server"

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Uhmm, anyone wondering why it was on Indian government servers?

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countries like that have strange "security" laws... probably to comply with that for some weird reason

India had a problem with blackberry before because of blackberry's encryption.. I think blackberry caved but I can't remember.

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Uhmm, anyone wondering why it was on Indian government servers?

Because there is rising fear within population of data theft from Chinese apps -cough *Mi* cough- and there were demands for making these things locally available for government analysis to avoid/stop such acts.

I guess they have managed to legally expanded their reach and made other country origin software owners use Indian government servers as well. A perfectly fine demand and law, now next step would be to actually have proper/capable security system for our government servers

You can blame this on bullocks HR policies recruiting/rejecting people for silly reasons, 99% on paper might not guarantee more capacity in practicals compared to a guy who only has 80% -shots fired-

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You do realize that this post was in 2012?

 
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Damn! I only checked the last one and scrolled up

Thanks for pointing that out, my overthinking soul will be at peace now

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