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Security Threat Changing, Says Symantec CEO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-target dept.

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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  1. first post finally by themadplasterer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    finally..., first post!

    1. Re:first post finally by arivanov · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Moderators - do not mod this FP down please. It is insightful. At least as insightfull as the revelation by the Symantec CEO. This has been going on for 2+ years now. It is entertaining to see him noticing it now. It is in fact same as the parent post. A looser screaming "First Post", but posting at least 5-10 posts behind the FP proper.

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    2. Re:first post finally by themadplasterer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      and how can you now there were posts before i hit "reply" because there weren't

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  3. You insensPitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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