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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
The more data you have, the more insight and knowledge you possess, right? But what happens when your data stores grow so large that securing and managing them effectively is no longer in the cards? A few extra gigabytes here and terabytes there, and before you know it, you’ve got a big security data problem. Read more…
Tags: Big Data, big security data, enterprise, enterprise security, epo, ePolicy Orchestrator, ESM, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Risk Advisor, NitroView, security information and event management, SIEM
Update: Watch McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt’s RSA Conference keynote on Predictive Security and also view my video on the topic. The year started off really well for malware authors, with the Conficker worm infecting millions of computers. Threats are not only increasing on a daily basis but they are also getting smarter in leveraging multiple Read more…
As most of you now know, on 10/23, Microsoft announced a critical out-of-cycle patch (MS08-067) to fix a flaw being exploited by cybercrooks. The vulnerability affects all major versions of Microsoft Windows. In just a matter of moments, attackers can gain total remote control of a system and install malware, keyloggers, and Trojans. A successful Read more…
Tags: Host IPS, Microsoft, patch, vulnerability
Two members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday said their computer systems were broken into, the latest in a series of cybersecurity alarms raised by the government. The lawmakers suggest that the break-ins were carried out by people who appear to be working from inside China seeking confidential lists of names of dissidents. Virginia Rep. Read more…
Hotels in Cannes don’t just sell out for the Film Festival; all rooms are also booked for a big IT show this week: VMware’s first VMworld Europe. Today I showed an audience of about 4,500 people at VMworld Europe how VMware and McAfee together will be able to protect virtual environments in ways beyond what Read more…
I attended the Macworld 2008 Conference last week in San Francisco, and in retrospect several diametrically-opposing observations come to mind on the experience. First, and foremost as a security professional, I was struck by how little concern there is in the Mac community for matters of information security and personal information protection. Everyone reading this Read more…
Open source software provides an invaluable benefit to almost any software developer, including McAfee. In the future I expect the use of open source code by software makers to increase. Why is open source code so important? Well, because a software developer can use open source code instead of spending time developing code that does Read more…
If you read Jeff Green’s post on the Avert Labs blog yesterday, you saw that there was a staggering increase in the amount of malware last year, reaching almost “epidemic” proportions. By year’s end, there were 357,820 pieces of malware, up from 221,935 at the beginning of the year. That’s one driver written every four Read more…
Our Avert Labs researchers announced a stunning prediction that the 2007 year-end malware virus count will reach more than 357,000 – a 60 percent increase over 2006. They also predict the cumulative total of 2008 to hit 550,000. When you look at these malware rates and compare them to the low rate of convictions for Read more…
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