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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Zombies in Your Neighborhood
On All Hallows Eve, spooky tricks and treats are abound. You will see all sorts of ghouls (princesses too!). But watch out for more than just ghosts and goblins this Halloween. If you live in Rio, New York City or Toronto, there’s a high chance you have zombies in your neighborhood. Zombie computers that is! Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, trojans, zombies
Another “Triple Double” Quarter
Today, we announced our Q3 2009 results to Wall Street and delivered McAfee’s 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth. It was another “triple double” quarter—achieving double-digit growth in revenue, operating cash flow and non-GAAP earnings-per-share. In the third quarter: • McAfee reported record revenue of $485 million for Q3 2009, an increase of 18% Read more…
Tags: Acquisition, Dave DeWalt, Mid-Market
Trick or Treat With Spam and Malicious Screensavers
I have previously blogged that some of the most common techniques scammers and cybercriminals use are news events and holidays. Balloon Boy and the Windows 7 Launch are good examples. My colleague Sam Masiello’s blog on President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize is another excellent example. With Halloween approaching rapidly, the tricks are already knocking on Read more…
Cookies — A trick or treat for you?
There was a study done by the Berkman Center that said our kids are more likely to be hit by a car than be abducted by an online predator. The authors also reminded us that people worry about the safety of Halloween candy even though there has never been a documented case of candy being Read more…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Family Safety
What to do After the Breach?
There is no shortage of advice on how to prevent a data breach, but what if you become a victim of a breach? Do you have a plan of precisely what to do next? While very few retailers do, I’ll offer some suggestions.
Before we delve into what you should do next
Tags: Compliance, data breach, PCI, retail, Risk and Compliance, TJX
DOD Should Demand Built-in Thumb Drive Defense
Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because viruses, worms and malware were uploaded to their network. Think about it. Thumb drives – tiny and able to enormous amounts of data – are ideal for moving information. Up until the ban, Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Device Control, regulations
Let's Play 'Find the Errors'
I’m writing this blog to demonstrate how the bad guys are getting better each day–or not, depending of your point of view. Once again our topic is Brazilian malware authors. Yes, the dumb ones I keep running up against. One of the recent versions of the PWS-Banker Trojan being distributed via spam has an interesting Read more…
McAfee Labs Goes After Evil Maid
In her recent blog Joanna Rutkowska describes a proof-of-concept code to attack Truecrypt system disk encryption. The blog also mentions “the concept behind the Evil Maid Attack is neither new, nor l33t in any way.” However, because the POC is now published, we expect script kiddies to jump on this opportunity and tweak this code Read more…
Security Choices, Mobile Style
The deeper dive into mobile security leads to more questions and difficult decisions, but we can take a dialpad of solace from the fact that retailers are at least starting to think about these issues.
Balloon Boy Spam Drifts Through Town
It’s bad enough that we are subjected to apparently fake child-peril balloon shenanigans in the news–and I guess this was only to be expected–but it seems that spammers and scammers have latched onto Balloon Boy as a lure to sell pharmaceuticals. Given the amount of news the original story of Falcon Heene and the runaway Read more…