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• Hackers stole $2.3 billion from Australians last year

  Hackers fleeced more than $2.3 billion from Australian consumers last year with more than six million people falling victim to cybercrime.

• Symantec's revenue hurt by enterprise sales drop

  Symantec Corp's quarterly revenue missed estimates, hurt by lower sales at its enterprise security division, and the company lowered its profit and revenue forecast for 2018.

• Aussies' 'perceived invincibility' on public Wi-Fi putting them at risk, suggests survey

  While hugely convenient and cost-effective for Australian consumers, many are putting their personal information at risk when using public Wi-Fi networks, according to a survey by Symantec.

• 6 DNS services protect against malware and other unwanted content

  While many (but not all) users are familiar with the concept of security software, there are more basic ways to protect unwary surfers from phishing sites, botnets, intrusive advertising and other unwanted visitors: DNS services.

• How automation could take your skills -- and your job

  Nicholas Carr's essay <em>IT Doesn't Matter</em> in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, and the later book, argued that IT is shifting to a service delivery model comparable to electric utilities. It produced <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2571616/it-management/it-does-so-matter-.html">debate and defensiveness</a> among IT managers over the possibility that they were sliding to irrelevancy. It's a debate that has yet to be settled. But what <em>is</em> clear is that Carr has a talent for raising timely questions, and he has done so again in his latest work <em>The Glass Cage, Automation and Us</em> (W.W. Norton &amp; Co.)

• Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing

  Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), which tests anti-malware products for effectiveness in protection, for the first time included the free version of the Malwarebytes software in the labs' competitive evaluation along with nine other vendor products, both paid and free. The results published by DTL today reveal Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free had a poor showing, with only Microsoft Security Essentials doing worse in terms of effectiveness of protection.

• McAfee rethinks consumer security service delivery

  McAfee, part of Intel, today announced a profound shift in how it distributes and prices its consumer security products by introducing LiveSafe, a service that combines anti-malware plus a score of other capabilities, such as anti-theft protection and a so-called "safety deposit box" in the cloud that can only be accessed by means of the user's face or voice biometric.

• Symantec CEO: 'We'll absolutely have a Norton brand'

  Symantec has commenced with a massive reorganization, saying it will end the internal separation that's traditionally been made in security software development done in the Norton consumer division and its enterprise product lines. But that doesn't mean Symantec's Norton brand is going to disappear, according to Symantec CEO Steve Bennett.

• Sony must learn from PlayStation Network attacks: Sophos, Norton

  Sony should take a long hard look at encryption and other security measures if it is to ensure the safety and privacy of its users, two security experts have said.

• Ex-JAG prosecutor takes crime fighting skills to cyberspace

  Fans of US naval prosecution show JAG: Judge Advocate General might be disappointed with the real life equivalent. There are neither jet fighter chases nor cases solved and prosecuted in 45 minutes.

• Norton mobile security apps seek to stop smartphone theft

  Early Tuesday morning Norton announced results of a Strategy One survey conducted last September that suggest one in three U.S. citizens have had their cell phones lost or stolen.

• Norton Utilities adds defragmenter tool, other features

  Symantec's Norton unit today announced an updated version of its Norton Utilities software, adding a way to defragment and organize files and data that's become scattered across a hard drive, enabling quicker startup, file access and more free disk space.

• Norton Mobile Security (Beta)

  One of the first places people often turn to when searching for antivirus protection for their new computer is Symantec's Norton suite of security tools. The company is now looking to extend that protection beyond the PC to your mobile phone through its Norton Mobile Security app. This app, although currently in beta, adds an extra layer of protection to your phone well above just having a lock screen.

• Symantec offers fix for buggy Norton patch

  Symantec has posted a software fix after hundreds of users reported problems with a buggy update of the company's flagship Norton AntiVirus software.