Sometimes you just get that feeling—whether it has to do with betting ‘all in’ during a game of Blackjack or visiting a sketchy website when shopping online—there’s definitely something to be said about listening to your intuition. With the number of data breaches and online scams on the rise, more and more shoppers are going Read more…
Tags: data breach, eCommerce, online personal data protection, trustmark, Trustmark Security, website security
As we say goodbye to this year and usher in the next, it’s important to look back on some recent events that occurred with respect to consumer security. Businesses have a responsibility to keep personal and financial data safe, and part of that comes from staying informed on the latest cyber perils your customers are Read more…
Tags: Consumer, data breach, eCommerce, GhostShell, online security
We’ve seen it before, and we’ll see it again: Yahoo, Utah Department of Technology Service, LinkedIn, eHarmony – the list goes on. The number of database breaches through Q3 2012 has already surpassed the entirety of 2011, with more sure to come. In the latest McAfee Labs Threats Report, we saw a few new trends Read more…
Tags: data breach, database security, McAfee Labs Q3 Threat Report
From tweens and teens to silver surfers, more people are jumping onto multiple Internet connected devices every day. It’s very exciting to see the proliferation of information sharing and communication between people on these devices at any time. Since October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, it’s a good reminder of the challenge we face Read more…
Tags: American jobs, Bring your own device, data breach, employee policies, internet security, mobile smartphone security, national cybersecurity awareness month, NCSA, New online safety survey, online safety, personal tablet, Small busines, Stop.Think.Connect, U.S. Economy
What if a criminal held your healthcare information for ransom, so you and your doctor had no way of accessing critical medical records? The adoption of electronic healthcare records has brought to light a plethora of security concerns. Worries about unauthorized access, information breaches, and questions about how the proliferation of sensitive data could impact Read more…
Tags: data breach, Healthcare, Healthcare Security
It happens, even to the most cautious of persons. Despite taking umpteen precautions, installing the best of security software and following all the rules, one’s account gets hacked. It may be either because someone got access to the password and started using the id to spread spam or because one had inadvertently clicked on an Read more…
Tags: Account hacked, data breach, mcafee total protection, Tips for a secured password, Yahoo password hacked
McAfee Labs has just released the McAfee Threats Report, First Quarter 2012, and I’m proud of it. I am cribbing from the intro to this quarter’s report, but it kinda says it all: “The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, known for his doctrine of change as central to the universe, once wrote that ‘everything flows, nothing Read more…
Tags: Android, antivirus, Consumer, counter identity theft, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, mobile security, phishing, social networking, spam
See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————- The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Microsoft Security Bulletin, MS12-020, Network Security, Risk and Compliance
Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had 10 common malware kits. I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. There were 45 vulnerabilities in the table. From the data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, identity theft, malware, Network Security, social networking
Today we released our Fourth Quarter 2011 Threat Report, revealing that malware surpassed the our estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release of new malware slowed a bit in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase and recorded its busiest year to date. Malware The overall growth of PC-based malware actually Read more…
Tags: Android, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, facebook, global threat intelligence, identity protection, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, malware, mobile security, Network Security, Risk and Compliance, security, social networking, spam
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