McAfee Labs has discovered another attempt by ruthless malware authors to profit from disaster and tragedy. While searching for information on the earthquakes and tsunami that struck the islands of American Samoa on 29 September, I saw the following results from the Google search engine: Clicking on one of the links, which at first sight Read more…
This week I’ve been working my way through H.R 2221 – the “Data Accountability and Trust Act” . This proposed legislation is making its way through the Committee on Energy and Commerce at the moment, and if passed, will rationalize data protection legislation across the USA at a federal level. The act enforces a few Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, encryption
Recently, we analysed samples of a new fake anti-virus program that brands itself as Alpha Antivirus. This program uses the following filenames: alphaav.exe and msnaoladdon.dll. Alpha Antivirus is a new FakeAlert variant evolved from the Personal Antivirus family of rogue anti-virus software. Like many FakeAlert malware, Alpha Antivirus promotes itself through the use of pop-up Read more…
The use of social engineering to grab attention of recipients and to deliver malware is not something novel. The latest trend in spreading malware is to manipulate a happening celebrity story, disaster or other high profile news event. The threat could be delivered as emails or poisoned search engine results which leads to malware. In Read more…
On October 6-9, 2009, security professionals from around the world will come together for four days of networking and learning at FOCUS 09, McAfee’s 2nd annual security conference. As you may know, we have an assortment of valuable sessions and events planned: Keynotes from prominent leaders and industry visionaries, including: Gen. Colin Powell, USA (Ret.); Read more…
Last year, the amount of malware designed to steal your passwords increased 400 percent. In the first half of this year, malware growth nearly surpassed the entire quantity created in 2008. The danger to your passwords has never been greater. This malicious software can be downloaded from bad email attachments, stealthily “injected” into your computer Read more…
Although maybe unnoticed, a month ago Missouri finally joined that heady club called “States which have Data Privacy Laws.” On 28th August, the “Missouri Data Breach Notification Law,” or House Bill 62, took effect. The bill may not protect, but at least enforces care and attention, residents’ personal information (Social Security Numbers, Driver’s License Numbers, Read more…
Nowadays, most anti-virus products can deal with viruses relatively easily using a variety of technologies. Decent emulator-based scan engines can handle a majority of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses, including those that use the entry-point obscuring technique (EPO). But when it comes to viruses with delay load and random code blocks insertion such as W32/Zmist, (a.k.a. Read more…
About a year ago, McAfee announced McAfee Artemis Technology, delivering real-time protection from known and new malware without downloading any signatures. This is protection for the Internet age in Internet time. We invented and introduced Artemis because we recognized that a different approach to security was needed to deal with the astronomical growth in malicious Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, security
Although maybe unnoticed, a month ago Missouri finally joined that heady club called “states which have Data Privacy Laws.” On 28th August, the “Missouri Data Breach Notification Law,” or House Bill 62 took effect, not protecting, but at least enforcing care and attention of residents personal information (Social Security Numbers, Driver’s Licence Numbers, and information Read more…
Tags: data breach, Data Protection, privacy, regulations, Risk and Compliance