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Monthly Archives: April 2009
McAfee’s Strategy is Working
Today we announced our first quarter 2009 financial results. These results demonstrate that, despite a challenging economic environment, our strategy is working. In the first quarter of 2009, we continued to take market share and outpace the growth of other companies in our space. According to the results: • Reported revenue was $448 million for Read more…
Online Swine Flu Scams On The Rise
As the swine flu outbreak reaches near pandemic levels, cybercriminals continue to use the flu scare as bait to scam Internet users. About five percent of global spam volume now mentions “swine flu” to trick people into opening the e-mail message. That could amount to billions of messages each day. McAfee Avert Labs has seen Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, malware, spam, swine flu
Looking at Swine Flu Spam Globally
Following up on Chris Barton’s excellent blog the other day on swine flu spam, we wanted to take a closer look at the numbers….. Many people may not realize that the words “swine” and “flu” had really not been seen in spam before this past weekend and almost certainly not together in the same subject Read more…
Laundering as a Service
Money laundering is a process for concealing the origin of funds generated by illegal means. People generally associate money laundering with drug trafficking, gun smuggling, or corruption. But funds misappropriated by identity theft, phishing, and carding also have to be “laundered.” Today, the mushrooming of virtual money (or e-currency) makes the job easier when you Read more…
Protect your wallet, identity and your kid’s safety with the new ‘online 911’
Many years ago, I had a checkbook stolen. My husband and I were only married for a few years, had a toddler and not a lot of money in the bank. Somewhere in the few blocks between my daycare provider’s house and our condo, I guess I had dropped the checkbook. I retraced my steps Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety
One Place, Finally, For Getting Help with Cybercrime Online
I get emails every single day from people who don’t know where to report things when they go wrong. They fear that they are being scammed on ebay, or have had their creditcard information stolen and misused. They don’t know if they are in a phisher’s database as an easy mark and aren’t sure if Read more…
Tags: Family Safety
McAfee Introduces Cybercrime Response Unit
According to Consumer Reports, U.S. consumers have lost close to $8.5 billion to cybercrime over the last two years. Unfortunately many people don’t know they have become a victim or even what cybercrime is. To help solve that problem, McAfee today launched the Cybercrime Response Unit (CRU), a free service that demystifies cybercrime and offers Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cyber Security Mom, Cybercrime, Dave DeWalt, Family Safety
Swine Flu Spam
The Swine Flu pill spam has started and it’s taking a few Hollywood stars names in vain. Nothing out of the ordinary with the sites on the far end yet though I do expect Oseltamivir [AKA Tamiflu] will get some extra exposure once the affiliate pill sites are updated. Subjects: First US swine flu victims! Read more…
Beware of Shady Installers
Today I came across a program that claims to be an installer for the VLC media player. Innocent, right? Guess again. For starters, the installation file was different from that supplied by the legitimate VLC media player site. At Step 3 of the installation I saw this dialog box: The translation of the message from Read more…
Hacking Exposed at RSA
RSA is pretty much over now and it has been a blurry several days. Some real good sessions, some real good panels. Lots of meetings and interviews and many old friends on hand (shoutouts to Dave Perry, Larry Bridwell, and Lysa Myers), but I digress. … For me the best event was the “Hacking Exposed” Read more…