One thing that disturbs me is how people classify some malware by how surprising large the file is, how many libraries it uses, etc. In many cases, this just means the malware has inefficient code and all the tools are available to easily convert the binaries back into human-readable pseudocode. Let’s look back a bit Read more…
This time it’s not about some Twitter account being hacked but serious business: It was major news when on January 30 The New York Times revealed that it had been hacked, with users passwords and various email accounts compromised. Today the Wall Street Journal stepped forward and announced that its computer systems had been infiltrated. The Read more…
Tags: Bloomberg, China, Chinese, Hackers, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
Black Hat is over. The year’s biggest and probably most influential IT security conference again had a lot of interesting talks to offer, and of course also the most important part: Meeting with other people from the industry to share news, ideas (and beer). As for the talks, there wasn’t much earth-shattering this year. Aside from Read more…
Tags: GSM, Mobile, near field communication, NFC
Following up on a post from my colleague Jim Walter some months ago about DNSChanger, it is now time to act! For a more detailed description of the threat, check out Jim’s post and our Knowledge Center entry about detection and remediation of DNSChanger. Here is a brief recap: DNSChanger is malware that a gang Read more…
Tags: DNS, DNSChanger, ISP, malware
On March 6, the widely recognized institute AV-TEST published a long awaited review of Malware Protection for Android–with really disappointing results for us And the report was widely quoted in the media. An analysis on our side quickly showed that an outdated version of McAfee Mobile Security had been tested. Yesterday AV-TEST announced that they had Read more…
Tags: Android, Android Malware, McAfee MobileSecurity, Mobile, Testing
Many of you may have already noted this from Google’s home page, but for those not reading the fine print or not using Google: Today is International Safer Internet Day, which will have its 10th anniversary next year (if I counted right). Started in Europe by Insafe with funding from the European Commission, this day has become Read more…
Yesterday was “Safer Internet Day” in the European Union. To mark the occasion, Eurostat, the statistical office of the E.U., released a selection of statistics on Internet security: “Nearly one third of internet users in the EU27 caught a computer virus.” The data was collected from a survey on the usage of information and communication Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security, malware, security, social networking
Following the example of the United States with its “Operation Cyber Storm,” the European Union members, jointly supported by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), last week started and completed the first pan-European cybersecurity simulation, “Cyber Europe 2010.” With more than 150 experts from 70 public Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, government, McAfee Labs, Network Security, Public Sector
On April 30 www.multimedia***.com, a newly registered website that allowed users to post, search, and view amateur videos, came online. The site was part of a group of 160 new domain registrations, and was identified by the network of sensors and data feeds that contribute to McAfee Global Threat Intelligence. Seemingly legitimate, many of these Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security
Today, McAfee released a report based on a survey of more than 1,000 decision-makers about the use of Web 2.0 technology for business. The report reveals some interesting results (for example, who would have thought the United States is among the countries with the lowest adoption rate, and Germany is the country with the most companies Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security
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