Officials at Symantec, the makers of Norton Antivirus, have confirmed earlier reports that cybercriminals successfully obtained a portion of the security software’s source code and published it online earlier this week.
In a Friday afternoon report, Nicole Perlroth of the New York Times said that company spokesman Cris Paden confirmed the hacking. The programming code obtained was for two of Symantec’s antivirus products for businesses — Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, which were four and five years old respectively, Perlroth added.
“We have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec’s solutions,” Paden told the Times in an email. Symantec is working to develop remediation process to ensure long-term protection for our customers’ information.”
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