Welcome to part two of our critical infrastructure podcast series with Raj Samani, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for McAfee EMEA. Raj previously worked at the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public sector organization in the U.K., and during this podcast, we discuss the question of accountability within critical infrastructure. If you Read more…
In the past decade, the security industry has seen a constant rise in the volume of malware and attacks associated with them. Malware are constantly evolving to become more complex and sophisticated. For example, Unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011 – Network World 500 malware networks available to launch attacks – Read more…
Tags: advanced persistent threats, APTs, behavior-based detection, botnet, malware, signature-based detection
Like many parents, I have mixed feelings about homework. There is a part of me that loves the fact that my children are consolidating their knowledge but there is a bigger part of me that can often find it completely overwhelming. Up until a year ago, I was ‘all over’ my kids’ homework. I made Read more…
Tags: Alex Merton-McCann, Cyber safety tips, cyber security, cybermum, cybersafety, families online, homework, Internet Safety, McAfee, mothering, mothering advice, Mummy blogger, online safety, parental advice
With the upcoming Windows 8, Microsoft hopes to finally make Windows a serious contender in the tablet market and to offer a consistent user experience across all Windows devices. Our examination of prerelease software suggests that Microsoft has achieved much of that ambition. However, the company has also created challenges for users that in some Read more…
Tags: IE 10, Internet Explorer 10, Win 8, Windows 8 Metro
The Internet is an indispensable tool that citizens, corporations and governments all over the world have come to rely on. There are tremendous benefits to the World Wide Web including: having the information highway at your fingertips, being able to find and purchase products and services from anywhere, working from home, connecting with distant friends Read more…
Tags: android antivirus, Android security, anti-malware, anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-spyware, antivirus, Antivirus software, computer security, cyberbullying, Cybercrime, cybercriminals, cybercrooks, firewall, hacking, identity theft, Internet filtering, Internet monitoring, internet security, Mac antivirus, Mac security, malware, McAfee, mobile antivirus, mobile security, parental controls, pc security, phishing, Safe search, safe surfing, scams, site advisor, spam, tablet security, Virus protection, web security
In a recent McAfee Labs blog, Global Threat Response Team Manager, Samantha Swift, discusses how the McAfee SECURE™ trustmark has been increasingly falsified on sites as part of a “ransomware” campaign. According to Swift, infected machines will notify users with a localized graphic containing a police logo that their machine has been “locked” and can Read more…
Tags: McAfee SECURE, Ransomware, trustmark
As the only country in the world that manufactures fuel from coal, South Africa has become a haven for major industries like mining, motor vehicles, machinery, chemicals and agro-processing. But like many countries, South Africa has faced an uphill battle since the 2009 recession, battling high rates of unemployment and a shortage of skilled labor. Read more…
Like Zeus, it appears that Operation High Roller is a banking trojan much more advanced in terms of quality, applicability to broad platforms and automation. Its ability to scale far beyond current banking malware is of great concern. So you want to know what you can do now to protect yourself? Here are some tips Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, global threat intelligence, GTI, highroller, hips, McAfee Application Control, OHR, virusscan
Earlier today Guardian Analytics and McAfee released the joint report “Dissecting Operation High Roller,” which describes a new breed of sophisticated fraud attacks. The advanced methods discovered in Operation High Roller show fraudsters moving toward cloud-based servers with multifaceted automation in a global fraud campaign. Building on established Zeus and SpyEye malware tactics, this ring Read more…
Tags: automated transaction server, banking fraud, cyber fraud, fraud, identity theft, malware, OHR, Operation High Roller
Microsoft has issued a security advisory that describes a vulnerability in its XML module. McAfee has also observed that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability exists when the function “msxml3!_dispatchImpl::InvokeHelper” in Microsoft’s XML attempts to access an object in memory that has not been initialized, allowing attacker to execute arbitrary Read more…
Tags: CVE 2012-1889, iframe, Microsoft XML Core Services, uninitialized local variable, vulnerability