Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday
NEW DELHI |
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software.
"This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter.
In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.
(Reporting By Frank Jack Daniel)
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Comments (2)
btb101 wrote:
lets hope whoever gets it can do a better job than the original programmers.
this piece of software is so slow, clumsy and unwieldy.
jonxboy01 wrote:
This guy is as fake as it comes… if he had the source code.. why would he tell everyone? he doesn’t have it.
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