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NewsHacker posts Symantec's pcAnywhere code
A hacker posted the source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere product Tuesday, following a failed attempt to extort $50,000 from the security company, Reuters reported. The previous day, Symantec Read more...
LexisNexis warns of breaches
Information broker LexisNexis is warning more than 13,000 consumers that a Florida man facing charges in a racketeering conspiracy may have accessed sensitive consumer databases that were used to Read more...
Cyber crooks use data for extortion
There's a new twist to the increasingly-common tale of data theft. Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest processors of mail-order pharmacy prescriptions, recently had its databases hacked and Read more...
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