Editing Norton Utilities (section)

== Controversies ==
===January 2012 source code hack===
On 17 January 2012, Symantec admitted to their network getting hacked. A hacker known as "Yama Tough" obtained Symantec's [[source code]] by hacking an [[Indian Government]] server. Yama Tough has released parts of the source code, and has threatened to release more. According to Chris Paden, a Symantec spokesman, the source code that was taken was from enterprise products that were between five and six years old.<ref>{{cite web |author-first=Gregg |author-last=Keizer |url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223495/Symantec_backtracks_admits_own_network_hacked.html |title=Symantec backtracks, admits own network hacked |work=[[Computerworld]] |date=2012-01-17 |access-date=2012-02-10}}</ref>

===September 2012 source code hack===
On 25 September 2012, eight months after the first hack, an affiliate of the [[hacker group]] "[[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]]" published the source code for Norton Utilities. Symantec has responded that this was from the same code leaked in January 2012. They have confirmed that the leak included source code for 2006 versions of Norton Utilities, [[pcAnywhere]] and [[Norton AntiVirus]].<ref>{{cite web |work=Symantec |title=Claims by Anonymous about Symantec Source Code |url=http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-claims |access-date=2012-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915075059/http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-claims |archive-date=15 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===2018 Allegations of SpinRite source code theft===
In June 2018 [[Steve Gibson (computer programmer)|Steve Gibson]] alleged in his weekly [[podcast]] "[[Security Now]]!", that Norton's Disk Doctor was not created by Norton but instead was [[reverse engineered]] from his ubiquitous [[SpinRite]] software without permission or attribution. This, he says, occurred after he refused to accept Peter Norton's bid to purchase SpinRite from him. He claimed proof in that random numbers he generated for [[BIOS]] compatibility checks were left unchanged in Disk Doctor, presumably because Norton's software engineers didn't know their purpose. He also alleged that Norton eventually abandoned Disk Doctor because they didn't understand how it worked, and therefore couldn't support its users.<ref>{{cite web |work=Gibson Research Corporation |title=Security Now! Transcript of Episode #666 |url=https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-666.htm |access-date=2018-07-06}}</ref>