Symantec exploits journalists' ignorance, but there is at least one news site (PC World) that claims Symantec is lying

Symantec already faces a formidable foe in Microsoft Corp. But now, the security and storage company must also defend itself from Red Hat Inc. and the open source market. In fact, Red Hat has launched an aggressive attack against Symantec’s Veritas business. Here’s the scoop.

Symantec is ramping up its encryption software portfolio with the acquisitions of PGP and GuardianEdge for $300 million and $70 million, respectively.

Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday.

More and more data center managers have begun implementing virtualization and server See the HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server with Systems Insight Manager – Click here. consolidation strategies in an effort to cope with the growing complexities they face today, according to a Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) Latest News about Symantec report released Tuesday.

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Security company Symantec said Monday that a new worm is attacking the operating systems, along with Microsoft’s Windows, in what may be the first time this sort of malicious software has been designed to target all three OSes.