Data security company Symantec has confirmed that Anonymous, a hacker group/ Internet freedom advocates (however you want to view them), stole the source code of several Nortorn security products from its 2006 line as well as the pcAnywhere remote access tool. Although Symantec claims the theft actually happened in 2006, the company becomes concerned after hackers who claim to be part of Anonymous said they had the...

Adobe Flash Player is under attack from hackers, barely a month after it suffered the same fate. The company was forced to issue an advisory stating that a critical flaw is being exploited. Last month, hackers embedded malicious Flash (.swf) files in Excel (.xls) files disguised as e-mail attachments. This time, the hackers are conducting targeted attacks using Flash files placed in Microsoft Word (.doc) files. S...