Symantec has introduced a free cybersecurity service in a move to help political campaign parties and candidates protect their websites against malicious actors. Project Dolphin is powered by artificial intelligence technology and works to analyze a website in the company’s telemetry and alert an organization once a spoof site is discovered, Symantec said Tuesday. The company seeks […] More

Greg Clark, CEO of Symantec, has said government agencies should advance the development of “custom, purpose-built security tools” designed to protect its national security systems from potential cyber attacks. Clark wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on The Hill that such tools should be unique and unknown to cyber threat actors and urged the […] More

Symantec has launched a venture capital business in a push to help startup companies accelerate the introduction of new technology platforms to the cybersecurity market. Symantec Ventures will offer entrepreneurs access to the firm’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform and Digital Safety Platform, artificial intelligence expertise, go-to-market resources and civilian threat intelligence network, the company said Thursday. Greg Clark, CEO of […] More

Symantec has integrated the company’s threat intelligence systems with the security telemetry of Blue Coat in an effort to provide threat visibility and protection to customers. The companies have applied the brute data-crunching force of artificial intelligence to help analyze large volumes of security data, Symantec said Wednesday. “By fast-tracking the integration of the threat intelligence […] More

Symantec has helped FBI crack down on cyber threat actors associated with an advertising fraud scheme, dubbed 3ve, which compromises consumer devices to drive fake internet traffic to advertisements. The bureau-led Operation Eversion resulted in the seizure of systems associated with the 3ve ad-fraudulent botnet, arrest of three people and five more indictments, the company […] More

Symantec has identified a new cyber espionage group dubbed Gallmaker that launches attacks on some government, defense and military organizations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The company said Thursday the Gallmaker group uses publicly available hacking tools and “living off the land” techniques to access targeted computers and avoid detection by traditional security […] More

Symantec has found that a cyber espionage group called Thrip uses legitimate network administration and operating system tools to avoid detection and deploys custom malware to launch attacks on defense, satellite communications, geospatial imaging and telecommunications companies in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. The company said Tuesday its research team discovered malicious behavior in January […] More

The U.K. government plans to invest nearly $73 million in seven research and development projects meant to support innovation in the British aerospace sector. The funds will be awarded through the Aerospace Technology Institute as part of the British government and industry’s commitment to invest as much as $5.3 billion in civil aerospace R&D initiatives by 2026, […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm has teamed up with the U.S. Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency to demonstrate multidomain operations and secure data transmission across multiple systems.

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Ellen Glover, an executive vice president at ICF International, has been reappointed chairwoman of the board of directors of the Professional Services Council. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture Federal Services, and Kathleen Flanagan, president and CEO of Abt Associates, were respectively re-elected as vice chair and secretary, PSC said Thursday. Twelve executives from […] More