I am a sucker for online shopping and my current obsession is with books. When you have Fishpond, Book Depository and Borders offering free delivery in addition to highly reduced prices, well – it’s a marriage made in heaven! Now, every time I find a new shopping site, I have to register my details. And Read more…
Tags: Alex Merton-McCann, book, children online safety, cyber security, cybermum, cybersafety, families online, family, Internet Safety, McAfee, mothering, mothering advice, Mummy blogger, online book shopping, online bookstore, online safety, online shopping, parental advice, privacy, Privacy Awareness Week
Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are often legitimate software that pose a risk to users’ privacy or systems. A reasonably secure–or privacy-minded–user may want to be informed of the presence of certain PUPs and in some cases remove them. One very common type of PUP is adware, which exists to make revenue through advertising. Some adware Read more…
There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about privacy settings. Facebook, Verizon and even Etsy have all been making changes to their Privacy Settings. With all this talk about privacy settings, I think it is easy for people’s eyes to glaze over them or throw their hands up and say “I give Read more…
Tags: Consumer, cybermom, facebook, Facebook Security, privacy, privacy setting, privacy settings
I recently performed a penetration test of a transportation company in the Midwest. Save for a few low-severity vulnerabilities, Company X had a well-managed public-facing network infrastructure. Satisfied with the status of their network security, I turned my attention to the human network. Searching for Company X on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, I Read more…
Tags: enterprise, Information Security, privacy, social media
An interesting story broke this week on BBC News and other sites regarding the Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) in France starting a legal challenge against a new French law passed on March 1, 2011, the “Decree on the conservation of data”, which insists on the preservation and tracking of online activity. The LCEN Read more…
Tags: ASIC, Data Protection, France, France Law, French Law, LCEN, privacy
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
The world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, according to our fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. A staggering fifty-six percent of all risky sites end in .COM! Researcher at our very own McAfee Labs analyzed more than 27 million websites to uncover which domains are the most Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Family Safety, global threat intelligence, identity protection, malware, privacy, social networking, spam, Web 2.0
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 a failed state-wide “hack” of the Blackberry system, where the state-controlled telco etisalat tried to distribute a “performance enhancing patch” to Blackberry users (which turned out to be a state-controlled back door program), The United Arab Emirates is threatening to block e-mail sending and IM delivery on Blackberries, and Saudi Arabia is threatening to Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, privacy, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United Arab Emirates
Geolocation presents new nightmares about protecting data.
Tags: Data Protection, mobile security, privacy, smartphones
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