Symantec Corporation is the manufacturer of Norton Antivirus protection. Recently Symantec Corporation’s partial source code has been stolen by the hackers. Symantec is produced their most of the security products by this source code.
Due to stolen the source code of Symantec others technology related competitors will be concerned about their secret code and it may be harm for them.
According to Symantec Corporation the user data will remain safe although the source code is stolen. Already Lords of Dharmaraja group acknowledged that they hacked the source code of Symantec Corporation. But in this purpose Symantec has no comments.
Symantec said that the stolen source code two years old and now it’s doesn’t uses. Mainly Norton antivirus protects computer from malware attacks.
By the way source is very sensitive issue for each developer. According to researchers if source code is stolen then information can also be stolen.
News source: Reuters
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