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Monthly Archives: May 2009
White House Recognizes Cybersecurity Importance
Today President Barack Obama recognized that cybersecurity of critical U.S. public and private infrastructure is essential to our national security and economic interests. In a speech at the White House, which I was honored to attend, the president unveiled the highly anticipated 60-day Cybersecurity Review and declared that the country’s efforts to deter, prevent, detect Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, government, law, legal
Who Digs the Elephant Trap?
It is ironic, but the rapid growth rate of malware attacks is partly due to how successful AV technology has become. If AV scanners were not so successful in blocking Trojans and viruses, there would be little need for the bad guys to write new ones. One can even say that malware writers are digging Read more…
Bad Program Logic Amplifies Baofeng Attack
A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on DNS servers of a domain registrar coupled with bad program logic in a popular media application caused network outages in parts of China last week. Baofeng is a widely popular media player in China, with a total of 200 million users and several million users online simultaneously. The player Read more…
Urban 'Attack' on Infrastructure
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, stands for large-scale distributed remote processing systems that gather data in real time to control critical industrial, infrastructure, or facility processes and equipment. SCADA is used in power plants as well as in oil and gas refining, telecommunications, transportation, and water and waste control. Stories about intruders who Read more…
Double Strike by AMTSO
It was very encouraging to see that more than 40 people came to Budapest, Hungary, to discuss and agree on new industry standards as part of the effort undertaken by the Anti-Malware Standards Organization (www.amtso.org.) The awesome historic surroundings set the mood for our discussions.  Seeing such a great turnout in the current economic climate shows Read more…
Parents and grandparents: Don't ignore cybercrime, New film tells victims stories
A few weeks ago I told you about my Paypal account being hacked. The folks at Paypal knew about the transaction being fraudulent even before I knew it happened. I got my money back that was taken and the operator informed me [ ; ) ] that I “got hacked not Paypal.” I used the Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety
McAfee Unveils H*Commerce Web Film Series on Cybercrime
Today we launched a new web film series, entitled “H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You.” The film series was created to expose cybercrime as a serious and universal threat that can no longer be ignored. Several of our own Avert Labs researchers lent a hand and their big ol’ brains to the project! The term Read more…
Seven Questions to Ask Yourself (and tell your teens) When Using Craigslist
Have you seen the story of the so called “Craigslist killer” in the news recently? It is creepy stuff. I am guessing that the women that were targeted were perhaps lured into thinking they were safe because of the upscale hotels that they were asked to meet the killer. It made me wonder…do I have Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety
Fight Against Cybercrime Gets Organized
The fight against cybercrime is showing some very promising progress over the last few years. We are certainly not where we want to be, but we’re on a good path. McAfee’s own Inititiative to Fight Cybercrime has been in force for more than a half-year. Recently our Cybercrime Response Unit was launched; it’s an online Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime
McAfee to Acquire Dynamic Whitelisting Leader
I am excited to announce another important milestone in our growth as the world’s largest dedicated security company. Today, at our May 15th Investor Day meeting in New York City, we announced that we will acquire Solidcore Systems, Inc., a leading provider of dynamic whitelisting technology. Through this acquisition, we believe McAfee can expand its Read more…
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