Microsoft welcomes hackers

Symantec secures its future

Symantec`s recent acquisitions of WholeSecurity and Sygate were seen as nice, complementary purchases for the security giant, but Symantec has ambitious plans for the companies` technologies that could begin an overhaul of its core product lines.

Cyber-Looters Capitalize on Katrina

The distressing images of looters carrying off electronics, food and whatever other goods they could find in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have become all too familiar, but the online “looting” that has cropped up in the storm`s wake may prove to be more financially damaging than the thefts occurring on the ground in New Orleans.