By The everyday life is greatly enhanced by technology, with gadgets, computers and pieces of hardware and software providing access to information we all rely on. Although the hardware is the part which can be seen, touched and actually used, without software all hardware would be useless. Much like hardware, software is being developed with more and more features, all of those making life easier with increased reliability, offering great benefits to the users.
Every user expects the software to provide all the necessary elements in order to make a device useful. What would it be without operating systems, programs and all the other applications available?
The topic at hand is an antivirus called Symantec, which provides safety to lots of users. Sadly, a group of Indian hackers, called The Lords of Dharmaraja, has stolen the software code belonging to this particular antivirus. Symantec confirmed this theft via an e-mail released Friday. The company does not concern too much about this theft, explaining that the code that was stolen was old and the main network has not been breached. Although the hacker group announced they have the code and some important confidential information, Symantec should not be damaged too much, according to a spokesman, informing the press that the source code that was stolen was used in two older products, one of which is no longer being sold.
The code seems to be five years old and the company did not encounter any problems regarding costumer information, especially because the security networks are still intact. The hackers said that the files containing the source code and other information was found from the Indian military intelligence servers.
Experts so far reported that such an incident is not catastrophic for the company, simply because the stolen information could not serve any purpose to the hackers. The source code, being old, was pre-Vista, only 32-bit compatible and the newer safe functions that were released as updates were not in use.