In this blog, McAfee experts explore the latest workflow advancements and threats targeting your company’s endpoints. Topics range from current issues such as desktop virtualization, to web application vulnerabilities, and the security benefits and flaws of the most recent product releases and patches.
This month, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday bundle includes two separate updates for Internet Explorer; the first (MS13-037) is a cumulative update for Internet Explorer. The second is a fix (MS13-038) specifically for a critical bug in IE 8 that hackers and malware have been using to break into Windows computers. This vulnerability first surfaced on May Read more…
Tags: endpoint, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday
Nothing is as frustrating as when something goes wrong, especially when you have time constraints. NIST has just released Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4: Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations where a few notable items have been added to increase the confidence that security, practices, procedures and architectures of information systems Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, endpoint, NIST, privacy, Real-Time for ePO, Risk Advisor
Everyone loves a good game and the thrill of competing to win. Competition helps inspire two teams to push further and the fans to cheer harder. In business, as in the case of McAfee and Symantec, our rivalry means we create better products, push to stay on top, and help our partners do the same. Read more…
Tags: cyberattacks, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, ePolicy Orchestrator, Gavin Struthers, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner
This week, CRN pitted McAfee and Symantec head-to-head, evaluating both leading enterprise protection vendors for malware and spyware protection, intrusion prevention, channel profitability and more. The result? While Symantec continues to have a strong portfolio, McAfee came out on top for its central policy management through ePolicy Orchestrator, innovation with hardware-based security technologies, and its Read more…
Tags: endpoint, McAfee Channel, McAfee ePO
Support for Windows XP SP3 will officially end April 8, 2014, meaning users have less than a year to choose which operating system to go with next. For many, the motivation to move off XP to a new operating system hasn’t been very compelling – while Windows 7 may be a reasonable option, Vista wasn’t Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, endpoint suites, hips, Java Vulnerability, McAfee Application Control, Whitelisting, Windows 8, Zero-Day
It’s a signal of a changing market when analysts and those reporting on key metrics utilize different definitions. Have you read the news of the death of the PC? How should one define a personal computer? I personally compute with the following systems: a personal laptop, a corporate-owned Ultrabook, a tablet, a smartphone and, occasionally, Read more…
Tags: byod, Datacenter Security, endpoint
The recent press activity around the New York Times Cyberattack, and the response from their vendor are causing quite a stir in the malware protection community – so much in fact that some journalists have gone as far as claiming that “antivirus protection alone barely represents a speed bump to determined hackers” Andy Greenburg, Forbes Surprisingly, Read more…
Tags: NY Times
Late last week, reports began to surface that the Israeli police (along with other regional law enforcement) were targeted by a malware attack. The entry vector was described as a phishing campaign sent from Benny Gantz (head of the Israeli Defense Forces). Initially, details and indicators around the malware were beyond sparse. Aside from the FROM: address, Read more…
Tags: antivirus, Cyber Security Mom, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, internet security, Israel, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Security, phishing, security, spam, ValidEdge, web protection, XtremeRAT
With the news of the latest zero-day exploit for IE gaining press around the globe, there seems to be increasing coverage that “security experts” are advising users to stop using Internet Explorer until Microsoft releases a patch for the root problem. PC-World’s Ian Paul relays this story, and repeats Metasploit’s advice – use another browser. That’s Read more…
News broke today of a large data breach against Yahoo Voices, resulting in more than 400,000 username/password combinations being posted in clear text. The compromise involved a basic SQL-injection attack against an exposed Yahoo server (dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com). Similar to other recent events, the account data was reportedly stored in an unencrypted state. We see this type of attack Read more…
Tags: Database, sql attacks, SQL Injection, Yahoo!
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