There is an inevitable predictability with your email Inbox. Any newsworthy event, whether a natural disaster, major sporting event, or even malicious celebrity gossip invokes an email from an entrepreneurial individual with unscrupulous principles promising you something of value in exchange for information personal to you. Even money intended to assist victims of major natural Read more…
Tags: celebrity, McAfee Labs, mobile threats, Olympic scams, online threats, smartphone, sport, summer games, Threats
This is a busy summer though it can be hard to believe that summer arrived in some parts of EMEA! As soon as Q2 closed, I travelled to Cannes for a series of meetings. First of all I attended the EMEA Talent Forum. This EMEA program brings together on a regular basis some of our Read more…
Tags: DeepSAFE, EMEA, IPS, Magic Quadrant, McAfee Labs, SIEM
There has been quite a bit of analysis and speculation about the Flamer/Skywiper threat. As we started to analyze this threat, we knew from the very beginning that this was going to be a giant undertaking and potentially very long term. Now we want to pause to help the people we protect visualize the kind Read more…
Tags: advanced persistent threats, antivirus, APT, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Data Protection, enterprise, Flamer, global threat intelligence, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, labs, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, Mobile, mobile security, Network Security, SkyWiper, social networking
A few weeks ago, Iran reported intensified cyberattacks on its energy sector that they observed as a direct continuation of the Stuxnet and Duqu attacks. Over the weekend, the IR Cert (Iran’s emergency response team) published a new report that describes this attack as Flame and/or Flamer. Some other news agencies also called the attack Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, antivirus, APT, Cybercrime, cyberespionage, cyberwarfare, espionage, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee Labs, targeted attack
Pinterest is getting lots of media attention lately. Spammers are also starting to exploit the social-media “pinup” site to make quick money. We have found that there are already lots of ready-to-use tools that make it easy for anyone to start Pinterest scams without much difficulty or technical skill. These tools are so easy that Read more…
Tags: Android, Cybercrime, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, identity fraud scams, identity protection, identity theft, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, McAfee Labs, pinterest scam, social networking
See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————- The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Microsoft Security Bulletin, MS12-020, Network Security, Risk and Compliance
In this week’s blog we continue our channel recognition momentum, showcase an outstanding new SMB tool, talk about the short quarter, and provide resources to learn more about McAfee’s acquisition of Nitro Security, a new certification service, where to find free-trials of McAfee SaaS, get access to Partner Summit keynotes, and highlights from our Q3 Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Labs, McAfee Labs Q3 Threat Report, McAfee Partner Summit, mobile malware, NitroSecurity, PCI, PCI DSS, SaaS, SMB, SMB Advisor Tool
In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto had an idea: a digital currency that could be used without bank or central entities, based on the trust the users had for each other. With the help of public-key cryptography and the Internet, members of this peer-to-peer network could tell if a user was legitimate and allow transactions from and to Read more…
Tags: identity fraud, malware, McAfee Labs
With much fanfare and much to the chagrin of ne’er-do-wells far and wide, the Zeus Toolkit source code has been released to the public. This is notable because normally it would cost quite a bit to purchase the kit and associated services (in excess of of US$10,000). With a release of this sort, the most Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, Cybercrime, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, Network Security, Risk and Compliance
Are you looking for information on the London 2012 Olympic Games or tickets to the games? Then call the London Olympics 2012 Ticket Information service on: …Actually please don’t! Their grey small-print ad declares that calls cost £1.02 per minute and rightly (but pretty much illegibility) claims “this service is not connected with the London2012.com Read more…
Tags: 2012 London Olympics, chris barton, Cybercrime, Data Protection, identity protection, identity theft, labs, McAfee Labs, Olympic scams, olympics, phishing scams, scams
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