Read about the latest threats, partnerships, and innovations in the world of security from experts such as Mike Fey, Simon Hunt, Phyllis Schneck and Raj Samani. Armed with decades of experience in the security industry, the authors of this blog analyze current technology issues and define the terms and techniques required to resolve them.
McAfee’s announcement last week of the planned acquisition of StoneSoft further demonstrates our commitment to the Security Connected vision of integrated security – from endpoints to the network – while providing visibility and analytics. StoneSoft is a robust enterprise-grade platform capable of immediately taking us to a leadership position within the next generation firewall market Read more…
Tags: network, Network Security, Stonesoft
Like many of you, I’m a parent. And as a parent, I know there’s nothing more challenging, or more important, than figuring out how to protect our children from danger. While we might wish we could just tell them what they can and can’t do, we know that’s a losing strategy. Instead, we need to Read more…
Tags: cybereducation, parenting, TED
This past April (4/19 to 4/21) I had the great pleasure and experience of joining the Red Team at 9th NCCDC competition. It was actually my 2nd year on the Red Team and 4th year to attend in total (I judged in 2010 and 2011). McAfee is actually a perpetual Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, internet security, labs, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, NCCDC, Network Security, Red Team, Risk and Compliance, security
Des dispositifs de plus en plus intelligents peuvent désormais communiquer entre eux de manière inédite. Les possibilités offertes par cet ‘Internet des objets’ sont infinies mais sommes-nous prêts pour cet avenir connecté ? Nous vivons dans un monde de commodités modernes sophistiquées. L’informatique, intégrée désormais dans tous les aspects de notre vie quotidienne, a permis Read more…
My role at McAfee takes me around the globe to speak with customers and partners, assess different security strategies, and survey current and emerging threats facing the different regions and industries. To those ends, my team and I recently conducted an informal poll of security industry practitioners and found that while there was a positive Read more…
Tags: RSA
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
This post was updated on January 27. See end of file for update. There has been a great explosion of chatter in the last day around Anonymous’ “Operation Last Resort” (a.k.a. #OpLastResort). The entities behind the various “official” communications around this operation have a sense of humor that we must point out (especially because if Read more…
Tags: Anonymous, Barrett Brown, Data Protection, Last Resort, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Security, OpLastResort, social networking, Swartz, twitter, USSC
We previously wrote about what it means to be a security-obligated executive – how to identify threat warning signs and prep against cyber-attacks. Historically either the C-suite and the security teams haven’t spoken at all, or security teams haven’t spoken to execs in a simple enough language to be understood. At McAfee, we often educate Read more…
Tags: 3Rs, CTO, regulations, riches, ruins
Today at McAfee we released our annual predictions on the top threats for 2013. Each year we take a critical look at the online risks that have grown in both depth and breadth and make solid predictions on what trends we anticipate will pick up in the New Year. Here are a few highlights on Read more…
Tags: 2013 threat predictions, HTML5, near field communication, Rootkits
Many people have contacted my team and I over the last few days about the recent announcement by ElcomSoft, that they offer a tool to decrypt Bitlocker, PGP and Truecrypt volumes. This $299 tool is advertised as getting you access to this encrypted data quickly and easily… Now, this may sound exciting, but as they Read more…
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