New software, released in March, Symantec BindView Policy Manager 3.0 allows organizations to do three key things to help with policy and compliance management, according to Indy Chakrabarti, product-marketing manager for Symantec.n
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a US$1.24 million three-year grant to Stanford University and software vendors Coverity Inc. and Symantec Corp. The grant will fund daily security audits and analysis of more than 40 open-source projects including Apache, Linux, Mozilla, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
The security holes exploited by Code Red and Nimda, worms that experts said had the potential to knock the entire Internet offline, attacked long-standing vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.'s IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server software caused by a type of error made through bad code writing: the buffer overflow.