Customers sometimes ask how McAfee corporate announcements relate to the public sector, so I decided to talk about two recent ones: the pending Stonesoft acquisition and the new Endpoint Suites offering. Both these developments make us an even stronger, more comprehensive security company, and they further strengthen our Security Connected platform. Our proposed acquisition of Read more…
Tags: Aquisition, critical infastucture, DeepDefender, Gartner, government, intrusion prevention, Ken Kartsen, McAfee Endpoint Suites, McAfee Network Intrusion Prevention Systems, Public Sector, Security Connected, Stonesoft, Stonesoft Aquisition
Zeus “banking” malware and its variants have been making headlines in recent months. One variant, the Citadel Trojan, has now taken the spotlight with the news of its withdrawal from the open crimeware market. Recently the author of Citadel, Aquabox, has been banned from a large online forum that sells malware and other services to Read more…
Tags: Citadel, Denmark, government, Japan, Poetry Group, Poland, trojan
Late Friday night, the hacktivist group Anonymous took control of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website in a new campaign called “Operation Last Resort.” The website was still experiencing downtime as of 11am PT this morning, and according to a ZDNet report, the website was re-hacked on Sunday afternoon and turned into a playable video game Read more…
Tags: Aaron Swartz, Anonymous, critical infrastructure, Federal Cybersecurity, government, Hacktivism, Operation Last Resort
You’ve probably heard the phrase “a fox watching the henhouse.” Today, that applies to people on the inside of organizations who work in trusted positions, and who use those positions to steal client or employee information for their own personal gain. As much as 70% of all identity theft is committed by individuals with inside Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, credit card fraud and protection, credit monitoring and resolution, data breach, government, identity fraud, identity fraud scams, identity protection, identity protection $1 million guarantee, identity protection surveillance, identity surveillance, identity theft, identity theft expert, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, lost wallet protection, malware, McAfee, McAfee Identity Protection, personal identity theft fraud, personal information protection, proactive identity protection, proactive identity surveillance
In a story that could have come right out of a movie, a widely respected police officer turned out to be a Mexican national who stole an American identity and moved to Alaska to become a cop. I’ll bet Sarah Palin didn’t see this one coming. Fox News reports that the identity thief had been Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, credit card fraud and protection, credit monitoring and resolution, data breach, government, identity fraud, identity fraud scams, identity protection, identity protection $1 million guarantee, identity protection surveillance, identity surveillance, identity theft, identity theft expert, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, lost wallet protection, malware, McAfee, McAfee Identity Protection, personal identity theft fraud, personal information protection, proactive identity protection, proactive identity surveillance
It is no secret the critical infrastructure of the United States is under cyber attack – every second of every day – from a threat that continues to evolve over time. And it isn’t slowing down – this past quarter, McAfee announced that malware had its highest growth rate on record. We face a dangerous Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, cyber attack, cyber threat, Department of Commerce, government, malware
Hacks Both Common and Sublime
Another day has passed here at CanSecWest with a mixed bag of results. Overall the content was, again, quite good, PWN2OWN shows us the future, HallCon and BarCon were all kinds of awesome, and I had two distinct “a ha!” moments. My first “a ha!” came during DongJoo Ha and KiChan Ahn’s “Is Your Gaming Read more…
Tags: CanSecWest, critical infrastructure, data breach, embedded, gaming consoles, government, identity protection, malware, mobile malware, online gaming, PWN2OWN
After hackers successfully penetrated the computer systems of the Canadian federal government, and after McAfee revealed the Night Dragon cyberattack against global oil, gas, and petrochemical companies, it seems to be France’s turn to have their computers infiltrated by hackers in search of confidential governmental information. The target was the French Finance Ministry. According to Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, government, malware, Network Security, targeted attacks
The New Year is already in full swing and as always, we at McAfee are working hard to anticipate and prepare our customers for potential threats. The year 2010 had many major cybersecurity incidents, including Operation Aurora and the Stuxnet virus, showing the sophisticated ways in which dangerous people seek to exploit information systems. These incidents Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, Dave DeWalt, enterprise, government, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Stuxnet, wikileaks
Yesterday I presented on Cybercrime, Hacktivism and Cyberterrorism with one of McAfee Labs’ most senior and well respected researchers, Francois Paget. This was a very different session in a number of ways. First, of all it was completely unrelated to product or technology–there really are no Anti-Hacktivism or Anti-Cyberterrorism plug-ins. OK, cybercrime takes many threat Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, government, malware, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance, vulnerability
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