A computer hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama
Tough' yesterday threatened to release the full source code for Symantec Corp's
flagship Norton AntiVirus software.
‘This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton
AntiVirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,' Yama Tough posted via Twitter.In the
past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec
products along with a cache of emails
The hacker says all the data was taken from
Indian government servers. Symantec Corp described the stolen source code as
several years old, Fox News reported. A spokesman for the company, Cris Paden,
told the news site that Symantec didn't have any other information,
"particularly with regards to any new claims Anonymous is making."