After a number of threats, hacker collective Anonymous has released what it claims is the source code for Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2006. The code was allegedly stolen, along with the source for several other Symantec products, after a security breach back in 2006. A hacker group called "YamaTough" attempted to extort money from Symantec in exchange for destroying the code back in February, and the alleged code for the company's pcAnywhere software was released on The Pirate Bay soon thereafter.

Now AntiSec, an Anonymous affiliate, has released a 1.07GB file on TPB titled "Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006 All Platform Source Code." As with …

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Protracted extortion negotiations with a hacker threatening to release stolen source code for several Symantec products ended yesterday with the code for pcAnywhere surfacing on The Pirate Bay. While Symantec has claimed it never had any intention of paying the $50,000 fee, and that the negotiations were part of a law-enforcement operation, the hacker in question has now told Reuters that he was always going to release the code. "We tricked them into offering us a bribe so we could humiliate them," said YumaTough, thought to be part of the Anonymous-affiliated Lords of Dharamaja group.

According to the report, Symantec is already expecting …

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The source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere and Norton AntiVirus products has been at the center of a weeks-long stand-off between the company, law-enforcement officials, and a hacker group threatening to sell the code to the highest bidder. An email exchange posted to Pastebin details negotiations between a Symantec employee named Sam Thomas, and a representative for the hacker organization going by the name "YamaTough." In the exchange, Symantec agrees to pay the group $50,000 if they destroy the source code and publicly state that they never had possession of it, but the discussions came to a standstill on Monday. The code for the two applic …

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Symantec has been scrambling to address a security breach from 2006 that revealed some of its source code, and now it is addressing concerns over how it originally handled the incident. At issue is whether or not the company should have realized back in 2006 that its source code had been stolen.

Symantec originally said that the stolen code only concerned four and five-year-old versions of some business-centric software, and since then the company admitted that corporate users of the company's pcAnywhere remote-access software should stop use of the program to minimize the possibility of a cyberattack. While the software vulnerabilities app …

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Symantec, makers of the widely-used Norton antivirus software, revealed that hackers have stolen segments of the source code for two of its business-focused products. However, the software affected, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, is four and five years old (and Antivirus 10.2 is discontinued), so the company believes there's no threat to users: a Symantec Spokersperson said in an email that the company has "no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions."

This confirmation comes a day after the first report that hacker group known as "The Lords of Dharmara …

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