Archive for April, 2005

Quote of the day:

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

pretty much… you rock

S. Ussher 04/27/2005

Symantec Hacked?

Monday, April 25th, 2005

Update: A reply from Symantec’s webmaster claims”it is a caching issue with Akamai,
and is being resolved.”


It appears Symantec, one of the leading computer security companies, has possibly been hacked.

I went to the main symantec.com site, looking for info about Norton Utilities for my family’s windows machine. (Which BTW appears they only ship bundled with a bunch of other stuff as System Works now.) So I clicked on “Products and Services.”

Main Symantec Page:
Main Symantec Page

Products and Services:
Products and Services

I chose System Works from the menu:
Choosing System Works

Which is where the first odd thing happened. All I got was this page full of broken images, so I tried to click on “Buy Now”:
Choosing Buy Now

This page actually looked more like it should, so I clicked on compare:
Choosing Compare

And up came this lovely pop-up! Something’s not right here:
Popup

So I can only come to the conclusion that they were either hacked, or they really need to get a new web staff???

Assholes

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

Dear God,

Why must there be so many assholes in this world?

Amen