Anonymous: Symantec Offered $50K for Stolen Code, Plus a Lie

[Nathan Wootton]

Quote:Members of the Anonymous network released an email thread on Monday that claims that Symantec offered $50,000 in return for the guaranteed destruction of code tied to its pcAnywhere and Norton Antivirus tools.
But the deal fell through, according to the AnonymousIRC account, and the code will be released for free to the Internet at large, the group said.
"Update regarding Symantec: Stay tuned for the f**king lulz," added "TheRealSabu, another member of the Anonymous collective. "Let's just say Symantec tried to give us 50,000 reasons not to release sources!"

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399912,00.asp

[Valentin N]

Some think that money solves everything...

[Vextor]

Erm, Symantec. What have you DONE?

[Jack]

(02-07-2012 06:54 PM)bbbbweb wrote:  Erm, Symantec. What have you DONE?

Symantec says that , this talk was in fact between the hacker and law enforcement officials posing as a Symantec employee. - http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/0...KB20120207

[HeffeD]

I read the same thing here Jack.

Quote:“Anonymous has been talking to law enforcement, not to us,” Paden told Forbes. “No money was exchanged, and there was never going to be any money exchanged. It was all an effort to gather information for the investigation.”

[Gnosis]

Nonetheless, it is hard to tell the cops from the criminals sometimes. "Protect and serve", that is supposed to be the gist, but it is usually about money and politics, or creating an image.

[pcjunklist]

The code is on piratebay

[AnoOtaku]

And you can expect Symantec watching the hell out of it lol.

[Nathan Wootton]

Quote:Symantec code theft: Hackers 'attempted extortion'

FBI investigators posed as a Symantec employee trying to negotiate with hackers
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Hackers tried to extort money in exchange for keeping source code private, security firm Symantec has said.

It comes as hackers made public emails from law enforcement agents posing as a Symantec employee.

Officials pretended to be the security firm in order to "offer" the hackers $50,000 (£32,000).

However, more source code has allegedly been released after negotiations apparently broke down.

[pcjunklist]

3 things,

1: You shouldn't be using pc anywhere, that was very popular over 5 years ago there are many free options to use now whether it be windows own rdp or tools like citrix logmein and teamviewer to name a few
2: If the code is indeed the older code it shouldn't have any effect since there was a code re-write for the new AV's that use sonar that replaced TruScan.
3: Never rely solely on AV for security, take a look at the my setup section of the forum and you will find lots of great tools to secure your machine