This most recent attack technique appears as an arriving email but contains a crafted malicious link. The attack is camouflaged as a Facebook correspondence alerting the victim that a friend “commented on your photo”. Although new security procedures are being implemented to protect Facebook users, cybercriminals will continue to aggressively abuse this and other social Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, facebook, identity protection, malware, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, social networking, social networks, spam
Do you remember when I told you about that time I logged on to a hotel’s free Wi-Fi and my firewall stopped someone from gaining access to my computer? Well I was reminded of that this week when a friend of mine sent me a link to an article on cnn.com about “sidejacking”. Have you Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime
McAfee just hosted its third FOCUS security conference in Las Vegas. I greatly enjoyed the 2008 and 2009 events, and I’ve just returned from the 2010 conference. Of course, I did not miss the keynotes sessions from our CEO Dave DeWalt and President Bill Clinton. Both were excellent: Our boss explained the “McAfee 3.0” strategy Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Dave DeWalt, global threat intelligence, government, malware, McAfee, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Web 2.0
Welcome to Week #3 of Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM). What are you doing this week to help those around you STOP.THINK.CONNECT when they go online? If you were one of our business customers at FOCUS 2010 last week, hopefully we gave you a lot of food for thought in how to keep your networks Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month
Welcome to the 2nd week of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S. where we just launched the new slogan “STOP.THINK.CONNECT”. Last Monday, I represented McAfee at the official kickoff of CSAM up in Seattle where we spent a good deal of time doing the first two of that motto. Sitting on a panel with Read more…
Tags: McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month
As many of you in the U.S. know, October marks the U.S. annual Cyber Security Awareness Month. Other countries such as the U.K., Australia and Japan hold similar events in their countries to mark the importance of online security and safety awareness. In collaboration with the National Cyber Security Alliance and as part of our Read more…
Tags: McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month
As you may know, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Organized by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), National Cyber Security Awareness Month is an intensive awareness campaign reaching out to consumers, small businesses, educators, children and other stakeholders in order to raise awareness about the importance of computer security and to educate individuals Read more…
Tags: Corporate Responsibility, Cybercrime, Family Safety, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month, security
As you have likely read in the news, President Obama gets it: Cybercrime is real, it is not going away, and it’s time that we make it a priority in the U.S. and abroad. As the New York Times reported, holes in defenses at the national level allowed “major incidents of thefts of personal identity, Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Corporate Responsibility, Cybercrime, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime
As you may know, McAfee’s Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, announced in October 2008, is a wide ranging initiative aimed at closing critical gaps in the fight against cybercrime. As part of this Initiative, McAfee today announced two new exciting developments: the awarding of our first two grants, and the addition of two new Advisory Council Read more…
The Internet got a little safer last week because Internet access providers pulled the plug, literally, on a company called McColo. This is a moment in the fight against cybercrime that we can celebrate. It came about thanks to the important contributions of security researchers and media covering the matter. The research provides us with Read more…
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