Read the news on any given day and you’ll see a constant barrage of headlines detailing banks, gaming companies, and even news organizations being hacked by cyber criminals. These criminals can steal credentials, personal employee or customer information, and even intellectual property. Customers want to make news headlines – but not as the victim of Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, McAfee Deep Defender, Real-Time for ePO
Today McAfee Labs published a report on how malware can operate at the kernel level and bypass Microsoft’s security for 64-bit Windows systems. “Defeating PatchGuard: Bypassing Kernel Security Patch Protection in Microsoft Windows” explains the danger of positioning operating system security at the kernel level. Now for a little background: The evolution of malware has Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, kernel, PatchGuard, rootkit
Like Zeus, it appears that Operation High Roller is a banking trojan much more advanced in terms of quality, applicability to broad platforms and automation. Its ability to scale far beyond current banking malware is of great concern. So you want to know what you can do now to protect yourself? Here are some tips Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, global threat intelligence, GTI, highroller, hips, McAfee Application Control, OHR, virusscan
I recently spoke on the topic of the Consumerization of IT and Security at the Texas Association of Governmental Information Technology Managers (TAGITM) event in San Antonio, Texas. This event is made up of executives in IT and security throughout the public sector. My presentation was titled: But I Love My iPad. The primary focus Read more…
Tags: consumerization of IT, Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Identity Management, Mcafee DLP, McAfee EMM, McAfee MOVE, TAGITM
I was talking to a healthcare organization recently that was in utter disappointment over their new CAT scan machine. When deployed, the machine was already infected with malware, and the bug spread to other systems in the organization. Pre-installed malware is never something you expect to deal with in a new machine, but it can Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, embedded, Integrity Control, malware, Pre-Installed Malware
Proliferation ZeroAccess is one of the most talked and blogged,[1][2] about rootkits in recent times. It is also one of the most complex and highly prevalent rootkits we have encountered, and it is continuing to evolve. The ZeroAccess rootkit is distributed via both social engineering as well as by exploitation. A recent blog post by our colleagues at McAfee describes some Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Rootkits
Darkmegi was in the news a couple of months back; it was the first known threat to be delivered through the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2012-0003 (MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) exploitation. More recently Darkmegi has been seen in CVE-2011-3544 (Java Runtime Remote Code Execution) drive-by attacks as part of the Gong Da Pack exploit kit. Darkmegi uses Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, rootkit, Stealth
It’s been more than a year since McAfee became an Intel company, and the team and I have been privileged to be a part of designing and developing our DeepSAFE technology, as well as Deep Defender, the first available product that leverages this advancement. Recent threats in the news validate what we’ve been working on, Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE
You have deployed every security solution imaginable. You leverage defense in depth. You update and patch regularly. You have built a fortress with a moat. But deep below all your tools is a rootkit saying “everything is ok” while secretly monitoring everything the system is doing and silently extracting data. How can this happen? What Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Endpoint Protection, intel, Rookits
Yesterday we kicked off FOCUS 11 in Las Vegas, and we’ve got record attendance. I’m thrilled to see so many security professionals coming together for such a valuable dialogue about the future of security. The big news of the day is that we announced two new products built on our DeepSAFE platform. These products will Read more…
Tags: Deep Command, Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Focus, kurtz
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