After spending a few days in Johannesburg I traveled south to Cape Town; this was arguably one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever done business in. Cape Town’s businesses are primarily a mix of retail, financial services, and some public sector. The McAfee team put on another great event to support our customers and Read more…
On May 28, my colleagues Peter Szor and Guilherme Venere posted a blog on Skywiper and listed various key filenames. Since then, I have searched these files, as well as some others that appear to be linked to this threat, in our collections. The following table summarizes these investigations. After I finished creating this table, Read more…
As a part of our ongoing effort to showcase industry thought leaders here in the blog, I was able to sit down with Raj Samani, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for McAfee EMEA, for a series of talks on the topic of critical infrastructure. Raj previously worked at the Chief Information Security Officer for a Read more…
Home and car insurance, home alarm system, deadlocks on windows and doors, income protection, health insurance … these are all things that we automatically have in place to protect ourselves and make our lives more secure. But what about our cyber lives? Are your PC, tablet and mobile protected? According to a recent study by Read more…
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The current “ransomware” campaign uses a novel approach to extort money from naive Internet users. Malware from cybercriminals infects personal computers by claiming to be a genuine Windows update. Once installed, this malware encrypts data on the hard drive and displays a message (see Figure 1) in German that translates to “Your system has been Read more…
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Next week on June 5-7, McAfee will be joining 570 exhibiting companies at the 2012 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE). With over 8000 expected attendees representing over 90% of the eCommerce technology market, we are proud and excited to show the world what McAfee SECURE has to offer. Our team will be stationed at Read more…
Exposed as in streaking through life naked without a stitch of security. There are things I do and things I don’t do, and no security isn’t on my “do” list. Come on, people! McAfee used its Windows-based Security Scan Plus scan an average of 17 million PCs per month in 24 different countries. This was Read more…
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Security experts labelled 2011 “Year of the Hack,” with a string of high-profile attacks against corporations and consumers alike. There is no doubt cybercrime is increasing at an alarming rate. The question is: what can you do about it? McAfee set out to address this question by first understanding the overall level of consumer security Read more…
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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…
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As more and more transactions are carried out online, credit card security and the need to achieve universal PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance continue to be a key issue. Many eCommerce merchants, especially retailers who fall within the small to medium category, are neglecting to keep up to date with the PCI standards required Read more…
Tags: PCI Compliance, SMBs