Stealing Source Code
Hackers stole some source code to Symantec’s products. We don’t know what was stolen or how recent the code is—the company is, of course, minimizing the story—but it’s hard to get worked up about this. Yes, maybe the bad guys will comb the code looking for vulnerabilities, and maybe there’s some smoking gun that proves Symantec’s involvement in something sinister, but most likely Symantec’s biggest problem is public embarrassment.
dbCooper • January 9, 2012 1:11 PM
Related to the theft is this article, which I posted earlier on the “squid” comments…..
Hackers Expose India’s Backdoor Intercept Program
http://www.securityweek.com/…
Contains such nuggets as: “Security and privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian commented, “Due to export control [requirements], NSA (and until 2010, Commerce Dept) have source code for all US made enterprise security/communications products…”
Posted by: dbCooper at January 9, 2012 10:51 AM