{"id":75,"date":"2005-04-25T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-04-15T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T06:37:18","slug":"symantec-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/symantec-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Hacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: A reply from Symantec&#8217;s webmaster claims&#8221;it is a caching issue with Akamai,<br \/>\nand is being resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It appears Symantec, one of the leading computer security companies, has possibly been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the main symantec.com site, looking for info about Norton Utilities for my family&#8217;s windows machine. (Which BTW appears they only ship bundled with a bunch of other stuff as System Works now.) So I clicked on &#8220;Products and Services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Symantec Page:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_1.jpg' alt='Main Symantec Page' \/><\/p>\n<p>Products and Services:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_2.jpg' alt='Products and Services' \/><\/p>\n<p>I chose System Works from the menu:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_3.jpg' alt='Choosing System Works' \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is where the first odd thing happened. All I got was this page full of broken images, so I tried to click on &#8220;Buy Now&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_4.jpg' alt='Choosing Buy Now' \/><\/p>\n<p>This page actually looked more like it should, so I clicked on compare:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_5.jpg' alt='Choosing Compare' \/><\/p>\n<p>And up came this lovely pop-up! Something&#8217;s not right here:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/symantec_hack\/symantec_hack_6.jpg' alt='Popup' \/><\/p>\n<p>So I can only come to the conclusion that they were either hacked, or they really need to get a new web staff???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: A reply from Symantec&#8217;s webmaster claims&#8221;it is a caching issue with Akamai, and is being resolved.&#8221; 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&#8217;s windows machine. (Which BTW appears they only ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,46],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-hacked","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gopyro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}