For decades, Symantec and McAfee have fostered a tit-for-tat rivalry that makes the old Hatfields and McCoys feud look tame by comparison. Though Symantec is the bigger player in the security market ...

Symantec and Microsoft announced a collaborative effort on Wednesday that has brought Symantec Web Security Service protections to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services. The Symantec Web Security ...

Users of the Symantec’s AntiVirus Scan Engine are being advised to upgrade their software, thanks to a critical security bug in the product. The flaw could theoretically allow an attacker to take ...

Cyber security company Symantec plans to formally announce Monday a new trust program for websites under the name Norton Secured Seal. Norton Secured Seal will replace the VeriSign Trusted seal ...

Symantec has announced a Web monitoring service intended to unearth evidence of botnet-related malware activity within an organization by continuously looking at outbound HTTP traffic for suspicious ...

Symantec Web Security does not filter newsgroups or chats, but its HTTP and FTP content filtering is top-notch. Combined with Symantec's powerful antivirus engine, SWS provides a single-source, ...

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the release of Symantec Web Gateway 5.0, a web security solution that protects organisations against all types of web-borne malware. Web-based attacks are ...

Symantec is delivering Symantec Web Security Monitoring as a hosted managed service to monitor and complement the security vendor's on-premises Web-security applications, such as Symantec Web Gateway.

Israeli firm Hotbar.com has settled a lawsuit filed over a security company's right to label Hotbar as "low risk adware," the Hebrew news Web site Ynet said. According to the terms of the settlement, ...

Symantec, the company behind such products as Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security, is a sponsor of the National Cyber Security Alliance’s Stay Safe Online campaign, an effort by several ...

Symantec seems to have outgrown the reputation as the Rodney Dangerfield of the technology market — it finally is getting some respect. This is good for the company but after sitting through a day of ...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has hit Symantec Corp. with a $1 billion tax bill for allegedly under-reporting the value of intellectual property that the software vendor transferred to two Irish ...