Hackers spunk 'pcAnywhere source' after negotiation breakdown • The Register


Tech | 246 hits | Feb 07 5:33 am | Posted by: Macguyver

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous uploaded what they claim is the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere software early on Tuesday, following the breakdown of negotiations between the hacking group and "a federal agent posing as a Symantec employee".

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  1. Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:40 pm
    pcAnywhere software allows you to control your computer from any other computer. Thanks to the brilliant minds at Symantec it?s likely that now your computer can be controlled by hackers from any computer.

  2. by avatar Regina
    Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:13 pm
    Hackers tried to extort $50,000 for stolen anti-virus code, Symantec says

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le2329215/

  3. Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:34 pm
    "Macguyver" said
    pcAnywhere software allows you to control your computer from any other computer. Thanks to the brilliant minds at Symantec it's likely that now your computer can be controlled by hackers from any computer.


    Only if you have PC Anywhere installed on your computer. Virus writers have been installing VNC on people's computers to do this themselves for many years now.


    Not new.


    "Regina" said
    Hackers tried to extort $50,000 for stolen anti-virus code, Symantec says

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le2329215/


    That was an FBI Sting.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe ... ion-sting/

  4. by avatar Regina
    Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:43 pm
    Yup.

  5. by avatar herbie
    Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:40 am
    I thought pcAnywhere went out with Windows98.
    I suppose the fools in business and government are keeping it alive.



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