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Coffee With Cybermum

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 3:50pm by Anindita Mishra
Anindita Mishra

Last week, I had the pleasure of interacting with a group of very informed and dynamic group of parents in a very interesting activity centre called Doodle’s Den in Bengaluru. The event was titled “Coffee with Cybermum” (that’s me, you know). The informal session was designed to create awareness about the need for protecting children Read more…

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Spammed malware linked into your Facebook photo

Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 4:04am by Felix Martinez
Felix Martinez

This most recent attack technique appears as an arriving email but contains a crafted malicious link. The attack is camouflaged as a Facebook correspondence alerting the victim that a friend “commented on your photo”. Although new security procedures are being implemented to protect Facebook users, cybercriminals will continue to aggressively abuse this and other social Read more…

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Malware Rises, Zeus Goes Mobile, Stuxnet Confuses in Recent Quarter

Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 3:19pm by David Marcus
David Marcus

Looking at computer threats from quarter to quarter remains a busy experience for us at McAfee Labs. Through the first three quarters of the year we have analyzed and cataloged more threats than in all other years combined, and the growth in both volume and sophistication of malware and attacks shows no signs of slowing. Read more…

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Continue to Stop.Think.Connect

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 4:51pm by Pamela Warren
Pamela Warren

What a great month…and the activities aren’t over yet!  Reflecting back over Cyber Security Awareness Month, I saw many encouraging ways that security professionals are taking on this “shared responsibility” to educate.  I spent some quality time with the security executives of the Executive Women’s Forum and saw the passion the women in this organization Read more…

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Ill take the Firesheep with a side order of ARP Poisoning please…

Monday, October 25, 2010 at 7:48am by David Marcus
David Marcus

I read with great relish about the release of Firesheep over the weekend at ToorCon. Firesheep, written by Eric Butler, is a FireFox plugin that allows for the capturing of “insecure” login information. From the Firesheep website: “When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks Read more…

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Warhammer Online Gold Sellers Can Lead To Malware

Monday, October 11, 2010 at 8:29pm by David Marcus
David Marcus

Ok I game. Get over it but this REALLY does relate to malware and malicious website research….. just stay with me. Warhammer Online has what they call an “Endless Trial”. Meaning you can play the game for free, theoretically, forever (its not a full featured client but it is real nice). Anyway the first time Read more…

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New automatic sharing feature on Facebook

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 8:09pm by Tracy Mooney
Tracy Mooney

Just a quick blog post to update you on a privacy change on Facebook of which you may not be aware.  You may have noticed a post last week when you logged into FB which said they were partnering with Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft Docs to provide an automatic sharing feature. This is great news Read more…

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McAfee and Facebook Secure the Internet

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 2:17pm by Todd Gebhart
Todd Gebhart

Facebook is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and today McAfee and Facebook announced an unprecedented partnership that’s a great benefit for Facebook users. We believe this unique collaboration is a step in the right direction — using technology and education — to secure the Internet as a whole and reduce global Read more…

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McAfee No. 1 in Web Security Appliances

Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 7:50pm by Tim Roddy
Tim Roddy

With Web applications and Web 2.0 beginning to take center stage in most enterprises, it’s not surprising that IT efforts and budgets to secure this Web traffic are beginning to reflect this shift. IDC notes that the Web security market is expected to nearly double from 2008 to 2013 in their recently released Worldwide Web Read more…

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Political Motivations Seen In Twitter, Facebook Attacks

Friday, August 7, 2009 at 12:25pm by Joris Evers
Joris Evers

Overnight McAfee Avert Labs confirmed that there is a political element to Thursday’s cyberattacks that downed Twitter and slowed down Facebook. According McAfee Avert Labs, blogging site LiveJournal, video site Youtube and photo sharing service Fotki were also among the targets. “What do they have in common? They all hosted an account of a pro-Georgian Read more…

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