{"id":2501,"date":"2012-01-27T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2012-01-27T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T08:48:07","slug":"symantec-fesses-up-code-theft-worse-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"Symantec &#8216;fesses up: &#8216;Code theft worse than we thought&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A hacker calling himself &#8220;Yama Tough&#8221;, acting as a spokesperson for the group, claims the source code had been pulled from insecure Indian government servers, implying that Symantec was required to supply their source code to Indian authorities. In a series of Twitter updates, Yama Tough talked about various plans to release the source code before committing to release the secret sauce of pcAnywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2012\/01\/18\/symantec_leak_latest\/\">Symantec &#8216;fesses up: &#8216;Code theft worse than we thought&#8217; \u2022 Channel Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even so the whole Symantec hack soap opera\/pantomime (&#8216;You&#8217;ve been hacked!&#8221;, &#8220;Oh no we haven&#8217;t&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Oh maybe we have&#8221;) raises serious questions about the security of Symantec&#8217;s ecosystem as well as turning the security giant into the punchline for jokes. For example, famed Apple hacker Charlie Miller quipped: &#8220;How could Symantec have gotten hacked? Don&#8217;t they use AV?&#8221; \u00ae<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker calling himself &#8220;Yama Tough&#8221;, acting as a spokesperson for the group, claims the source code had been pulled from insecure Indian government servers, implying that Symantec was required to supply their source code to Indian authorities. In a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[333,101,426],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-collaboration","tag-security","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}