McAfee Labs researchers recently published its 2013 Threat Predictions Report which had some very intriguing observations about what the bad guys are planning for the next year. While I found the observations to be critical to my team’s development work, I had one observation of my own: I think people are starting to pay a Read more…
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Today at McAfee we released our annual predictions on the top threats for 2013. Each year we take a critical look at the online risks that have grown in both depth and breadth and make solid predictions on what trends we anticipate will pick up in the New Year. Here are a few highlights on Read more…
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Black Hat is over. The year’s biggest and probably most influential IT security conference again had a lot of interesting talks to offer, and of course also the most important part: Meeting with other people from the industry to share news, ideas (and beer). As for the talks, there wasn’t much earth-shattering this year. Aside from Read more…
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Google just announced its new near field communication payment service, Google Wallet. We’ve looked at Google’s NFC service and security before, but at that time the details were still scarce. Now we’ve gotten a better look at what lies within Google Wallet. It’s part service, part hardware, and part app. The Service Google Wallet is a variation Read more…
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