Symantec news from FierceCIO

For the past five years, data breaches have grown more costly each year, reaching an average of $7.2 million per breach in 2010, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute and Symantec. Part of Read more...

Over the past month, the retail industry became the sector hit hardest by targeted email attacks, beating out the public sector and pharmaceutical business, according to a report from Symantec. Read more...

It was a pretty big week in acquisition news for some major IT vendors. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced that it is buying CoreOptics and Moto Development Group, which it hopes will give it a leg-up in Read more...

Enterprises were a growing target for cyber-criminals last year, in part because attackers stand to gain considerable sums from corporate intellectual property, according to a report put out by Read more...

According to two government officials, the Internet is particularly vulnerable because most users have no idea what they are up against or how to prevent a cyberattack. Michael Stawasz, senior Read more...

The two leading makers of computer security software, Symantec and McAfee, are in a race for business. The New York Times reports this week that each has become more aggressive as they try to get Read more...

Microsoft has a new security problem, and there is no way to fix it. Security firm Symantec told USA Today that cybercriminals have already found the vulnerability, which affects PCs using Windows XP Read more...

Green technology is quickly becoming a reality as more and more companies see it as a necessity and a smart way to save money. A recent Symantec survey of 1,052 companies found that most of them, 92 Read more...

The economic downturn is putting pressure on employers from many angles. One concern is that their own employees may be more willing to steal data or sell insider knowledge, according to two recent Read more...

A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months found that 59 percent admitted stealing company data and 67 percent said they used their former company's Read more...