As I’d mentioned in my last post, I have been doing a lot of research on smartphones, since I was planning to buy one for the elder netizen at home. The research threw up some interesting findings. Today, there are around 4 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, of which 1.08 billion are smartphones and Read more…
Tags: encryption, India, mobile security, mobile security software, smartphones, youth
Well, One week into the Intel/McAfee relationship and I am pleased to say it’s already bearing fruit. Over the last few days I’ve been reaching out to all my Intel peers, making the connections with people which were simply impossible while the deal was going through all the evaluations. I had an interesting discussion with Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Data Protection, encryption, enterprise, intel, Mid-Market, solid state drive
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held recently, in Krottner v. Starbucks Corporation, that increased risk of future misuse of personal data following the theft of a laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of a group of current and former Starbucks employees amounted to an injury sufficient to confer standing to sue in federal court. Note Read more…
Tags: class action lawsuit, Compliance, Data Protection, DLP, encryption, enterprise, Mid-Market, Risk and Compliance
Looking at computer threats from quarter to quarter remains a busy experience for us at McAfee Labs. Through the first three quarters of the year we have analyzed and cataloged more threats than in all other years combined, and the growth in both volume and sophistication of malware and attacks shows no signs of slowing. Read more…
Tags: botnet, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Email & Web Security, encryption, Endpoint Protection, facebook, global threat intelligence, Hacktivism, malware, Mobile, Operation Aurora, phishing, privacy, seo abuse, social networking, social networks, spam, sql attacks, Stuxnet, twitter, vulnerability, Web 2.0, zeus
I read with great relish about the release of Firesheep over the weekend at ToorCon. Firesheep, written by Eric Butler, is a FireFox plugin that allows for the capturing of “insecure” login information. From the Firesheep website: “When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, EFF, encryption, Endpoint Protection, facebook, google, identity protection, malware, phishing, privacy, social networking, social networks, twitter, Web 2.0
Following on from my post “10 Things You Don’t Want To Know About Bitlocker”, “TPM Undressed” and “Firewire Attacks Revisited” it recently came to my attention that Passware, Inc. A feisty California company has released a version of their forensic software which will decrypt Bitlocker and TrueCrypt protected hard disks via the classic Firewire vulnerabilities. Read more…
Tags: encryption
This week, datalossdb.org reported the first major suspected PII breach of the year, reported by George Russel, Superintendant of the Eugene School District of Oregon. Apparently some suspicious activity was noticed on one of their internal servers, which was subsequently shut down and isolated before being analyzed. The server in question had PII related to Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, DLP, encryption
Recently a slew of news sites announced a newly discovered vulnerability (care of the German Security firm SySS) on a range of supposedly “secure” consumer USB sticks. With the right tools and know-how, these models from SanDisk, Kingston and Verbatim were apparently easy to defeat and retrieve the data from without knowing the user’s password. Read more…
Tags: data breach, encryption, Risk and Compliance, vulnerability
Today my team announced the general availability of McAfee’s new endpoint encryption product for PC’s, totally integrated into our central management system, ePolicy Orchestrator. Though we’ve had encryption products since the acquisition of SafeBoot in 2007, and those products have been deployable and reportable in ePO from soon after that – Endpoint Encryption for PCs Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, encryption
This week I’ve been working my way through H.R 2221 – the “Data Accountability and Trust Act” . This proposed legislation is making its way through the Committee on Energy and Commerce at the moment, and if passed, will rationalize data protection legislation across the USA at a federal level. The act enforces a few Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, encryption
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