Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 Code Leaked by Anonymous

The on-going battle between security solutions provider Symantec and the hacktivists group Anonymous becomes the HOT news once again when the hackers claiming from the Anonymous group published the alleged source code of Norton Antivirus 2006. According to hackers, they obtained the code during a breach that took place in 2006. Recently the alleged groups reveal the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere and due to this customers were advised not to use the application. Now hackers come up with the source code of about 1.4 GB on The Pirate Bay followed by a message against the recent arrests made by law enforcement agencies.

0-Day Risk Analyzer from Qualys

Vulnerability & compliance management company Qualys comes up with a new service - Zero-Day Risk Analyzer that integrates with the QualysGuard 7.0 to help customers to analyze zero-day threats and estimate their impact on their assets and critical systems based on information collected from previous scan results. It also includes Verisign’s iDefense zero-day vulnerabilities and global threats.

Google bypass Safari privacy settings

Google using code in their ads to bypass the privacy settings of safari users to know about their searching behavior. Safari - famous for worry-free web that means to prevent companies from tracking the cookies generated by the websites you visit, Safari blocks third-party cookies by default. The privacy breach was uncovered by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer Relevant Products/Services science at Stanford University with an interest in Cyber Security. Google has immediately issued a statement saying that the Journal mis-characterized what happened and why, and claiming that they used a known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled.