McAfee channel partners are accustom to regular email newsletters and I would like to extend the latest to the social web. Below, you’ll find a feature highlighting the top reasons to partner with McAfee in 2010, provided by Fernando Quintero, VP of Channels for the Americas at McAfee.
Tags: Alex Thurber, Channel Partners, north america, thurber
Ketchup stains. Klingons. Exploding monitors. They’re all part of our fiendishly clever new music video, “Hacker’s Holiday.” Pity poor Tiny Tim. He gets a shiny new PC for Christmas and doesn’t bother to protect it. Well, you can guess the rest. A few short days later (12 days maybe?) his PC is ready for the Read more…
I ran into a few strange IMs over the weekend. When I was not shoveling out my driveway from the 15 inches of snow that covered it I was logged into Facebook telling people about it…. It was then that I started receiving some VERY interesting IMs from a friend extolling the virtues of a Read more…
Sadly, actress Brittany Murphy passed away over the weekend. With her unfortunate passing will come the inevitable web searches that lead Internet users to some potentially unsafe sights. This has been a well established trend throughout 2009. It is a sad reflection that malware authors and scammers will use these events as lures to distribute Read more…
You may have heard that the European Commission accepted Microsoft commitments to give users a browser choice. While this is fantastic news for the masses, a small paragraph was included in Microsoft’s “Interoperability Undertaking” that will bring holiday cheer to the security-minded: (42) Microsoft shall ensure on an ongoing basis and in a Timely Manner Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, kurtz, Microsoft
Yesterday, my colleague Dave Marcus quoted for you the new graphs and stats posted by Shadowserver. Indeed, since November 2008, W32/Conficker (alias Downup, Downadup, Kido) has frequently made headlines. This computer worm has five main variants, which have appeared during the last year. Wikipedia lists the dates:Â A variant: First appeared 21 November 2008 B Read more…
While IT leaders have focused on protecting corporate data, making data go away—and stay away—is becoming especially difficult today.
Tags: Data Protection, PCI, Risk and Compliance
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a method for making phone calls over the Internet or using private networks. Traditional phone calls must travel over a series of switches and circuits owned by the telephone companies, which control the process and the charges. By using VoIP, both businesses and individuals can enjoy a substantial cost Read more…
Our good friends at Shadowserver have recently added some excellent graphs and stats that highlight the continued infections and propagation by the Conficker worm. Conficker, although it actually does very little, continues to be a major annoyance worldwide, so let’s use these excellent charts and graphs as a reason to revisit two important points: Update Read more…
Adobe just posted a new Security Advisory (APSA09-07, CVE-2009-4324) for the latest critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 (and earlier). The flaw lies within a JavaScript function specific to the PDF Reader. Adobe plans to release a patch by January 12, 2010, to resolve the issue. The zero day is already being exploited Read more…