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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
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
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…
The consumerization of IT in the corporate world has created a new playing field for enterprise security teams. The sheer diversity of devices, compounded by closed and hosted operating systems, has resulted in some new and unique challenges specific to corporate mobile environments. Mobile devices are more likely to be lost or stolen, which can Read more…
Tags: consumerization, DLP, mobile security
News broke today of a large data breach against Yahoo Voices, resulting in more than 400,000 username/password combinations being posted in clear text. The compromise involved a basic SQL-injection attack against an exposed Yahoo server (dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com). Similar to other recent events, the account data was reportedly stored in an unencrypted state. We see this type of attack Read more…
Tags: Database, sql attacks, SQL Injection, Yahoo!
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
Email is the most common form of communication in business today. Every IT manger and CIO knows they need to block spam and viruses from entering their network via email – a real no-brainer these days. We even have world-class products and services to remove unwanted email at a truly impressive catch rate of well Read more…
Tags: Data Loss Prevention, Data Protection, Data Protection Act, DLP, Email & Web Security, email security, spam
Ever wonder how some of your favorite apps work together seamlessly, integrating key data points across platforms? How about the financial information you just pulled from a cloud-based CRM through your company’s ERP portal? The answer is the near invisible Application Programming Interface, or API. These pieces of finely tuned code silently make the digital Read more…
Tags: APIs, DLP, intel, Mcafee DLP, security
Many customers have come to me and said “I understand the importance of data loss prevention (DLP) for my organization; but where do I start?” Not only does data in enterprises double every 18 months, organizations don’t always know where all their data resides, who use it and how it is being used. With most Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, DLP, McAfee Data Loss Prevention, Mcafee DLP
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