Symantec is for the first time granting customers access to the threat detection technology used by its internal research team, making it easier to discover targeted attacks. The Mountain View, Calif.

Symantec has purchased Appthority and Javelin Networks to strengthen its defense against mobile application attacks and boost its protection around Microsoft Active Directory-based threats. The ...

Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections, quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and length ...

Critical security vulnerabilities have been found within Symantec and Norton products are "as bad as they get," according to security researchers. On Tuesday, Google's bug-hunting Project Zero team ...

Products from Symantec that are supposed to protect users have made them much more open to attack, according to Google. Researcher Tavis Ormandy has spotted numerous vulnerabilities in 25 Norton and ...

Symantec Corp. SYMC recently announced that it is improving its endpoint portfolio by upgrading Symantec Endpoint Security (SES), which now offers a comprehensive solution for protection, detection ...

Over the years, I’ve worked through a number of turnarounds, mergers, acquisitions and startups. I consistently rode them out under the assumption that each provides unique opportunities for ...

Antivirus giant Symantec is getting serious about encryption. The company announced Thursday that it's buying the encryption-focused firms PGP and Guardian Edge, paying $300 million for PGP and $70 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Broadcom Inc. said it agreed to buy Symantec Corp.’s division that serves business customers for $10.7 billion in cash, adding software designed to keep hackers out of corporate systems ...

Symantec Corp. announced on January 12 that it is taking over 65 engineers and data scientists from Boeing's cybersecurity unit, Narus. Boeing will retain ownership of Narus' licenses and intellectual ...