Symantec announced that Symantec NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 are now available worldwide to help businesses of any size seamlessly transform and modernize their outdated, complex and resource-intensive backup strategy.

We speak to Dominic Wong, Manager, Systems Engineering, Symantec Singapore, to find out more about the updates from the two products.

Background Music for 65Bits is courtesy of spinningmerkaba.

-Samsung Bada lives and is going to merge with the Tizen Project
-PlayStation Vita is coming to Singapore on 22nd February
-Hacker group threatens to release Symantec AV source code
-SOPA Blackout Day – 18th January 2012 at 8am EST to 8pm EST (9pm SGT to 9am SGT)

We interview Ronnie Ng, Senior Manager at Symantec, doing Pre-Sales for Systems Engineering.

He tells us more about the Symantec DuQu discovery and the best practices that should be followed.

Additionally, after the interview with Ronnie, Symantec released another update. We copy that update here.

As a result of its continued investigation into the Duqu targeted attacks, Symantec has confirmed that a previously unknown Microsoft zero-day vulnerability was used to infect targeted computers. This update is among several other new key findings bySymantec and CrySyS detailed in the latest Symantec blog post.

The Windows vulnerability was exploited via a maliciously crafted Word document and enabled the attackers to install the main Duqu binaries. Thus, this is the missing installer component previously discussed. It should be noted that this is just one of potentially multiple installer methods that may have been used by attackers to infect computers in different organisations.

Additional new key findings include evidence of commands sent to Duqu to spread within infected networks; the attackers’ ability to communicate with non-Internet connected, Duqu-infected computers via a peer-to-peer communication method; and that an additional Duqu sample has been recovered that is designed to communicate with a second command and control server.

We interview David Hall, Regional Product Marketing Manager for Consumer, Symantec.

David introduce us to the beta of Norton Internet Security 2012 and described the new features that consumers can expect. Existing consumers can also expect to use the new portal http://manage.norton.com soon, to manage all your installed antivirus and even do remote anti-virus scanning. Other non-Norton customers can also get to hear what kind of free tools Norton is offering.

Welcome to the latest video production from Tech65, The Interview. In this debut production, we interview John Harrison, the Group Product Manager for Symantec. At a recent event called next@norton, John presented a topic entitled “Making Sense of Any Third-Party Security Test”.