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.
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…
Whether they realize it or not, C-suite executives now have ownership over keeping their organizations secure. According to Gartner predictions, by 2015 as much as 25 percent of all organizations will add a new “C” to the C-suite: Chief Digital Officers. Living in the digital age, the CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, COOs and soon to come Read more…
Comme chaque trimestre, McAfee vient de publier son rapport concernant les menaces du troisième trimestre 2012 : www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-quarterly-threat-q3-2012.pdf En résumé, les tendances fortes de ce troisième trimestre sont les suivantes : • L’année 2012, comme prévu, va battre tous les records de volumétrie, nous avons déjà atteint 100 000 nouveaux échantillons par jour. • Le Read more…
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the Innovation roadshow. It’s a prototype project that my team has been working on for some Read more…
Tags: Connected Home, Little Red Box, UTM
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with many of our customers at FOCUS12, and addressing the audience on both the Tuesday and Wednesday keynote. We covered a wide range of subjects in our sessions, and made several announcements. We specifically looked at energy sector vulnerabilities, and announced partnership with Westinghouse to prevent network Read more…
Tags: epo, FOCUS12, Mike Fey, Security Connected
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
A l’occasion de la mise en place du blog McAfee France, il nous est paru intéressant de vous proposer quelques statistiques liées à notre pays et couvrant les 3 premiers trimestres de 2012. Au 30 septembre 2012, près de 150.000 adresses Internet suspectes hébergées en France ont été analysées par McAfee. Elles n’étaient qu’au nombre Read more…
Bonjour à toutes et à tous et bienvenue sur le Blog McAfee France. Ce blog a pour ambition de relayer en français des informations concernant la sécurité informatique, les codes malveillants, les produits et solutions McAfee afin de vous alerter et vous informer des évènements et tendances du moment. Commençons cette semaine par l’évènement McAfee Read more…
Tags: Christian Morales, codes malveillants, conférence utilisateur, cyberdéfense, France, Gert-Jan Schenk, intel, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, rançonnage, sécurité informatique
This week BBC News and others reported that Gibraltar is joining another well known destination, Monmouth UK, by tagging locations around the country with printed 2 dimensional bar codes (QR Codes) which can be scanned by your smartphone to link you to Wikipedia articles. As a regular traveler, tourist, and conveyor of useless information, to Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, mobile security, QRCode, Robert Siciliano, Trevi
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