We’ve all seen headlines about the growing numbers of medical devices being infected by malware. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported at least 327 devices at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals have been compromised since 2009. Taking action, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging device manufacturers and health care facilities to be more vigilant Read more…
Tags: Healthcare, Healthcare Security, hips
Support for Windows XP SP3 will officially end April 8, 2014, meaning users have less than a year to choose which operating system to go with next. For many, the motivation to move off XP to a new operating system hasn’t been very compelling – while Windows 7 may be a reasonable option, Vista wasn’t Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, endpoint suites, hips, Java Vulnerability, McAfee Application Control, Whitelisting, Windows 8, Zero-Day
Everyone’s looking to shave their IT budgets, manage fewer vendors and streamline. The plethora of low cost and sometimes free AV products is an enticing option to lower the cost to secure any business. Some free antivirus programs do an acceptable job of detecting, blocking and removing certain kinds of malware, but don’t provide protection Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, antimalware, antivirus, AV, GTI, hips
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
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