A day in the life of a Pyro. » Tech http://www.gopyro.com/blog 3... 2... 1... GO PYRO! Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:00:00 +0000 en-us hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Symantec Hacked? http://www.gopyro.com/blog/2005/04/25/symantec-hacked/ http://www.gopyro.com/blog/2005/04/25/symantec-hacked/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:25:09 +0000 PYRO http://www.gopyro.com/blog/?p=75 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???

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