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• How Symantec's CIO used SDN, Cloud to pull off Veritas split

  Symantec CIO Sheila Jordan had to stand up the company's storage business on its own infrastructure in 12 months. Here is how she did it.

• Iran-based hackers may be tracking dissidents and activists, Symantec says

  Hackers based in Iran have been using malware to spy on individuals, including potentially dissidents and activists in the country, according to new research from Symantec.

• Symantec finally sells Veritas for US$8 billion to investment group

  Symantec is selling its information management business, known as Veritas, to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group for US$8 billion as it looks to increase its focus on security.

• Is the smartphone market saturated?

  Smartphone sales increased substantially in the second quarter of 2015, but the rate of growth continued to slow, fueling concerns that the market has started to become saturated, according to a study released today by Juniper Research.

• OPM, Anthem hackers reportedly also breached United Airlines

  The cyberespionage group that stole the personal records of millions of Americans from U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has also reportedly breached United Airlines.

• Symantec: Well-heeled hacking group Black Vine behind Anthem breach

  A group has been singled out as the attacker behind the recently disclosed hack against Anthem, believed to be the largest waged against a health care company.

• Spam rate falls below 50 per cent for first time in a decade

  Spam fell to less than 50 per cent of all email in June, the lowest in a decade, Symantec said in its latest Intelligence Report.

• Hacker group that hit Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft intensifies attacks

  The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have escalated their economic espionage efforts as they seek confidential business information and intellectual property they can profit from.

• Hacktivist group possibly compromised hundreds of websites

  A hacker group known as Team GhostShell is publishing snippets of sensitive data allegedly stolen from the databases of hundreds of compromised websites.

• Spammers target Aussies at tax time

  Cyber crooks are impersonating representatives from the Australian Taxation Office through malicious spam campaigns and telephone scams targeting people at tax time.
  

• Duqu spy group also targeted telecommunications companies

  The group behind the Duqu cyberespionage tool has compromised at least two telecommunications operators and one electronic equipment manufacturer, in addition to a cybersecurity firm and venues that hosted high-level nuclear negotiations between world powers and Iran.

• Fraud campaign installs rogue app on non-jailbroken iPhones

  Cybercriminals in Japan are targeting iPhone users with an online scam that tricks them into installing a malicious application when they attempt to view porn videos.

• Illumio goes to the well for $105 million more in venture funding

  Investors in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2842789/security0/startup-promises-to-secure-data-centers-clouds-workload-by-workload.html">Illumio</a> are tripling down, with existing and new investors tossing another $105 million at the data-center/cloud security company that will be used to extend research and development, open new offices and broaden its customer base.

• Australian enterprises a popular target for ransomware attacks

  Australian businesses suffered a disproportionately high rate of ransomware attacks in 2014 compared to other countries, a new report has found.

• Police operation disrupts Beebone botnet used for malware distribution

  Europol, in collaboration with Dutch authorities, the U.S. FBI and private security companies, have seized the domain names used to control a botnet called Beebone.