Symantec warns of new Chinese hacking campaign

The 'Witchetty' hacking group, which uses steganography to hide a backdoor malware in a Windows logo.

Breaks up the security vendor

As we suspected earlier in the week, Broadcom has agreed to buy Symantec's enterprise business in a massive $10.7 billion deal that will break up the world's largest pure-play cybersecurity vendor.

Deal close

Broadcom is likely to buy Symantec  enterprise business and in fact many expected it to be agreed yesterday.

Too pricy

Broadcom has kicked the tyres of security outfit Symantec but walked out of the showroom after failing to agree a price.

Fears after whistle blower investigation announced

Symantec shares plummeted roughly 20 percent yesterday after the antivirus maker warned an internal investigation could delay its annual report.

Chrome will not trust them any more

After deciding to distrust Symantec's certificates in March, Google has decided that from Chrome 66 it will completely remove any trust of Symantec-issued certificates issued before 1 June, 2016.

Raises revenue forecast

Maker of the somewhat clunky Norton software, Symantec raised its full-year adjusted revenue forecast above what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted.

Who would have thunk it?

Symantec hit on a wizard wheeze for creating a more secure version of windows by jacking its security software into the kernel.

Consumers don't want it

Antivirus and security software maker Symantec saw its quarterly profit and revenue missed what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street expected.

Uses the original source code