{"id":163,"date":"2005-09-28T02:14:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T19:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=163"},"modified":"2005-09-28T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T19:33:09","slug":"symantec-buys-antiphishing-firm-wholesecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/symantec-buys-antiphishing-firm-wholesecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec buys antiphishing firm WholeSecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and detect malicious code attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Venture-backed WholeSecurity is based in Austin, Texas, and employs about 60 people. Its customers include eBay, Deutsche Bank and Visa, according to the company&#8217;s Web site. The acquisition is expected to be completed in October, Symantec said Thursday. Financial details were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Symantec currently offers limited antiphishing capabilities through its Brightmail antispam products. The WholeSecurity deal will expand Symantec&#8217;s lineup that handles phishing fraud and detects worms and other attacks, said Enrique Salem, senior vice president for security products and solutions at Symantec<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Symantec+buys+antiphishing+firm+WholeSecurity\/2100-7350_3-5877005.html?tag=alert \">Click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and detect malicious code attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}