Security Threat Changing, Says Symantec CEO

narramissic writes "At the Symantec Vision event in Tokyo Thursday, chairman and CEO John Thompson spoke about a shift his company has observed in the threat posed to computer users and companies by hackers. 'While a few years ago many people were much more focused on attacking the machine and attacking the broad-based activities that were going on online, now all of a sudden we've noticed a significant shift in both the type of attack and the motivation of the attack,' he said. 'The attacks that we see today are more targeted and more silent and their objective is to create true financial harm as opposed to visibility for the attackers.'"

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Good idea

[kaoshin]

"businesses will have to spend more time and energy on making sure that data is not just secure but also recording which users are accessing and manipulating information stored in corporate databases" which are housed overseas and manned by guys who would kind of like to behead your infidel children.

As if Symantec is an authority

[DietCoke]

We've got an active threat going on within our corporate network, it's already been determined to be within an existing worm family, and we get this response from one of their techs:

"We do virus *detection*, not necessarily virus removal."

You're telling that crap to a Gold support customer, Symantec, and you expect those of us in the field to give a tin shit what your opinion is?

Word of advice: quit expressing opinions and start doing your goddamned job.