I heard a number of interesting mobile-related talks at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28c3) this week. Not every talk at the Congress was about newly discovered bugs or zero-day exploits; sometimes we got the building blocks necessary to better understand systems and increase security. I enjoyed key presentations on reverse-engineering USB 3G data sticks Read more…
Tags: 3G, GSM, mobile data protocols, mobile security
Multifunction printers (MFPs) have been common in offices for years. They let employees print, scan, and copy documents. Two separate talks at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28c3) show how attackers can infect these trusted office devices. Hacking MFPs In Andrei Costin’s presentation “Hacking MFPs,” he covered the history of printer and copier hacks from the Read more…
Tags: Malware research, PostScript, Printers, white hat hackers
With 2012 just a few short days away, it’s that time of year when, in the words of McAfee Labs’ Dave Marcus, we “dust off the crystal ball, put on our battered Mr. Wizard hat,” and speculate about what the new year has in store. McAfee Labs recently announced its 2012 threat predictions, to which Read more…
How many of us give a second thought to how the pics we so happily post on our social networking sites could be misused? Today’s Internet-savvy youth rampantly put up all possible pics of self and friends or families to declare to the world all that has been happening in their lives. Unfortunately, these very Read more…
Tags: animation, freely downloadable morphing tool, John Bernard Campbell, Morphing
For the eighth scam of Christmas, the criminals gave to me a coupon in exchange for my identity! With the popularity of shows like Extreme Couponing, viewers learn that there are coupons or everything, right? Not so fast! Since my days of participating in The S.P.A.M. Experiment , I have known that there is no such Read more…
Tags: 12 Scams of Christmas, Christmas shopping crimes, email scams, holiday shopping fraud, iPad scams, online coupon scams
Yesterday at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28C3), in Berlin, security researchers along with Karsten Nohl and Luca Melette showcased a number of flaws and solutions in GSM mobile phone networks. Day 1 Defeating GSM encryption is not new. Nohl and Melette detailed how attackers can use known network control messages to help decrypt SMS Read more…
Tags: Hackers, mobile security, sms
As soon as you contract with a cloud provider, you should be concerned not only with your IT security but the provider’s as well. If you’re a small or medium-sized business you may assume the provider’s security is superior to your own, and you might be right, but make sure you ask the right questions Read more…
Tags: cloud security
Each year, McAfee Labs™ looks at the trends that they’ve seen over the past 12 months to make predictions about the types of security threats they expect to see in 2012. While looking into the future can be hit or miss, looking at trends and motives can give us a good idea of what to Read more…
Tags: 2012, 2012 Security Predictions, consumer threats, McAfee, Mobile, onlinethreats
History is said to be a good indicator of what might come in the future. If you follow trends in how things are done and what tends to gain momentum then you can get a pretty good idea of what’s ahead. McAfee Labs™ is made up of security professionals who spend all their waking hours Read more…
Tags: antivirus, Consumer, Cybercrime, Family Safety, identity protection, identity theft, internet security, malware, McAfee, mobile security, pc security, spam
“Tis the season to be jolly, tra la la la…” Certainly, this is a merry season, especially for hackers! McAfee had recently released a report titled, “Twelve Scams of Christmas,” which identifies the dozen most dangerous online scams this holiday season. So as you merrily buy gifts, book holidays online, courier presents to loved ones Read more…
Tags: 12 Scams of Christmas, holiday scams, holiday screensavers, online coupon scams