Symantec

Symbolically, last month’s news of a hacking attack on more than 600,000 Mac computers sent a loud message: Apple products are now vulnerable to the same kind of mass infections that Microsoft Windows computers are.

Financially, however, it was the equivalent of a bounced check — a big flop that likely netted the criminals nothing, according to new research from Symantec.

Symantec announced last week that it has acquired Nukona, a software provider for mobile application management.

Symantec already has a mobile device management (MDM) product in the market - the Symantec Mobile Manager, and I'm grateful which was announced just this month, but Brian Duckering, senior manager of product marketing for enterprise mobility at Symantec said that no plans at present to somehow merge the features of both into one product.

Considering Anonymous’ disparate nature, and no central authority calling the shots, it’s a surprise this group has not turned on each other already. Antivirus firm Symantec reports that associates of the group are finding themselves victims of denial-of-service software that has been infected by a Trojan horse.