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• The 50 Riskiest Cities For Cybercrime

  Ready the Bat-Signal, Seattle: You are officially the most dangerous city in America when it comes to cybercrime. According to the folks at Symantec, anyway.

• Cyber attacks frequent on Asia Pacific enterprises

  Three quarters of Asia Pacific enterprises -- and two thirds of businesses in Singapore - have experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months, according to new global research.

• Symantec hit with class-action lawsuit over auto-renewals

  A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that the company did not notify him before charging $US76 to his credit card.

• Spam, e-mail threats high in the Asia Pacific in January

  Incidents of unwanted e-mails and attacks on computers ran high last month for countries in the Asia Pacific region, according to the monthly report of IT security firm Symantec.

• Juniper, Symantec investigating after Google attack

  Juniper Networks and Symantec said Thursday that they were investigating a widespread cyber-espionage incident that has hit dozens of technology companies, including Google and Adobe.

• Symantec buys Gideon Technologies; Trustwave buys BitArmor

  As the new year gets underway, more of the big fish in the security pond are gobbling up smaller ones known for their expertise in specialized fields.

• Symantec product hits end-of-decade snafu

  Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date.

• Symantec security, storage offerings now on Amazon’s EC2

  Businesses looking at using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for pay-as-you-go servers can now add Symantec security, backup and storage protection.

• Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation

  Symantec has announced that it has enhanced three of its flagship products – Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server – with support for migrating data into and out of solid state drives and the ability to reclaim unused storage. In addition, the company has enhanced the failover capabilities of Veritas Cluster File System to work with structured data in Oracle, Sybase or IBM DB2 applications.

• Symantec upgrades for SSD, Hyper-V

  Symantec Corp. today announced several enhancements to its storage management suite, its cluster file and cluster server system, including the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as integration with Hyper-V.

• Symantec calls 'SpywareGuard' and 'AntiVirus' top scareware threats

  Fake security software "SpywareGuard" and "AntiVirus" are said to be the top two scareware programs out of about 250 fake security programs detected, according to a Symantec report.

• Rivals mock Microsoft's free security software

  Although one of the top consumer security vendors welcomed Microsoft's Security Essentials to the market, another dismissed the new free software as a "poor product" that will "never be up to snuff."

• Cyber security Tsar needed to lift Australia's defences?

  Symantec global CIO David Thompson suggests a US-style cybersecurity role could help prevent attacks like Anonymous' recent DDoS attack on Prime Minster's Web site.

• 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.

• Post-acquisition, MessageLabs harmonizes with Symantec

  Symantec has taken a relatively hands-off approach with its integration of hosted messaging provider MessageLabs since its acquisition of the company in November 2008, according to MessageLabs' former CEO.