When I started working at McAfee, I noticed that many of the terms commonly used here were completely unknown to me. Fortunately I had no problems understanding them, but I’m sure that more than one person has read a McAfee security update and thought “What does this mean?” This question is more likely when a Read more…
Tags: attacks, malware, security, Security 101, vulnerability
Eugene Kaspersky has weighed in this week on Shady RAT, criticizing McAfee for exposing an operation that attacked a wide range of companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations across 14 countries and numerous sectors of the economy. Among other things, Kaspersky says he doesn’t believe it was a sophisticated attack and that our approach is alarmist. He’s missing Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, attacks, critical infrastructure, intellectual property, Shady RAT
“McAfee launches a range of pharmaceutical anti-viral medications to thwart the growing problem of Biological computer viral attacks” Sounds far fetched? Maybe not given that researches at Caltech have successfully engineered a biological computer which can calculate square roots using DNA replication. Given that the researchers Lulu Quan and Erik Winfree have successfully demonstrated AND and OR logic gates at the Read more…
Tags: attacks, Biological Computer, Hackers, virus
Last month, we hosted our Twitter #SecChat on How To Keep Security a Priority, particularly for SMBs with limited IT resources. When it comes to security, attacks can happen regardless of your business size or type (as the recent and numerous security breaches at Sony can attest). How are SMBs supposed to prioritize security when Read more…
Tags: attacks, data breach, security, SMB
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