This kind of crap annoys me to no end. Less than 24 hours after Symantec acknowledged that their code had been purloined, the ambulance chasers hit the streets.
This is an email that was forwarded to us by two of our readers.
From: PJ Bihuniak
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 8:40 AM
Subject: Symantec confirms product source code theftJust wanted to make sure you saw the latest news. If you are a Symantec customer, you may want to investigate this further to determine your risk posture and susceptibility to this threat.
Clearly hackers/cyber espionage is on the rise. It is time to combat this threat at the #1 attack vector, the user.
P.J.
Paul J. Bihuniak
Director of Sales
Invincea, Inc[Contact info removed by editor]
Symantec confirms product source code theft
The security giant says source code on two of its older enterprise products is accessed.
By Tom Brewster, 6 Jan 2012 at 10:24Symantec today confirmed some of its source code relating to two of its “older enterprise products” has been stolen.
Although one of the products has been discontinued, another remains active, yet Symantec was not forthcoming about what those products were.
The code is four and five years old, the security giant said, and does not affect Norton products for consumers.
If the source code is recent and hackers find serious vulnerabilities, it could be possible to exploit the actual anti-virus program itself.
[Rest of article removed for brevity]
If you can’t sell your product on its own merits then, tearing down another is a catastrophic failure on your part. I’ve written about this type of behaviour in the past.
It’s just not appropriate.
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