http://www.nwfusion.com/news/financial/symantec.html Latest Symantec news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/112309-microsoft-ie-exploit-code.html Symantec Monday said the Internet Explorer zero-day exploit code published over the weekend does not work reliably but that a better written version is likely on the way. John Fontana 2009-11-23T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110209-data-loss-cost.html According to Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a lost or stolen laptop PC is more than $49,000. Most of this cost is due to the exposure of sensitive data. The sooner you discover the PC is missing and take action to disable access to the data, the less expensive the experience of the loss is. Linda Musthaler 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/techexec/2009/110209bestpractices.html According to Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a lost or stolen laptop PC is more than $49,000. Most of this cost is due to the exposure of sensitive data. The sooner you discover the PC is missing and take action to disable access to the data, the less expensive the experience of the loss is. Linda Musthaler 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102609-symantec-dlp-software.html Symantec has updated its Data-Loss Prevention Suite so that if the software finds a data issue that needs fixing, it can apply third-party encryption and digital-rights management (DRM) controls to the problem. Ellen Messmer 2009-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-scareware.html 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. Ellen Messmer 2009-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/101209id2.html In this issue I'd like to take a look back 10 years -- to the October 1999 issues of this newsletter's predecessor, Network World Fusion Focus on Directory Services. The majority of those issues were concerned with the upcoming release of Active Directory as part of Windows Server 2000, but to me, the interesting thing is to look at the companies that were mentioned. Dave Kearns 2009-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100609-malware-flea-market.html Hackers are paid $140 for installing malware on 1,000 U.S computers. But Russia and former Soviet Bloc countries appear to be off limits. Ellen Messmer 2009-10-06T02:18:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100109-microsoft-defends-security-essentials.html Microsoft is defending the merits of its free Security Essentials anti-malware software after a top Symantec engineer badmouthed the new release. Ellen Messmer 2009-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100109-symantec-microsoft-security.html Armed with an anti-malware test report that pits Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2009 against Microsoft's just-released Security Essentials software, a top Symantec engineer ripped into the new consumer anti-malware as an unimpressive re-cycling of Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare technology. Ellen Messmer 2009-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092809-smb-disaster-recovery-plans.html Small businesses shouldn't be so confident about their disaster recovery plans, survey founds. Jon Brodkin 2009-09-28T12:00:00-04:00