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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Cybercrime Call to Action
Earlier this week, the alleged mastermind behind Mariposa – one of the biggest viruses we’ve seen to date – was arrested in Slovenia. The investigation leading up to his capture is a perfect indicator of what we’re up against in our fight against cybercrime. It’s also another reason why we spend so much time educating Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Mariposa, Operation Aurora
McAfee Reports Strong Q2, Mobile Security Buy
Today, we announced our second quarter 2010 results to Wall Street and our intent to acquire privately owned tenCube, the provider of the WaveSecure mobile security service. I see several major themes that I want to outline today as part of understanding McAfee, our market and our second quarter results: The market we address is Read more…
Don't Be Misled by Online Shopping
We have just noticed a cluster of fraudulent websites that attempt to mislead consumers. They use a common pattern: offering counterfeit products cheaper than the original to get consumers to send money. We expect consumers to try to get the best product or greatest utility for their money. Due to this desire, some consumers can Read more…
Tags: online shopping
Summer Vacation is Prime Time for Identity Theft
While you’re away, identity thieves are prowling for your personal information on unsecured wireless networks, at hotels, and in your mailbox, McAfee warns Identity theft is a problem that has already affected 11 million adults in the U.S. alone. In fact, by the time you finish reading this sentence, yet another identity will be stolen. Read more…
Tags: identity protection, identity theft risk, McAfee Consumer Threat Alert, summer vacation
Remote Jackpot: Hacking ATMs
Isn’t it just everybody’s dream: to walk up to an ATM, swipe your card, get a flashy screen reading “We Have A Winner,” and watch the machine spew out all its money? That dream just became reality. At least in a great presentation from Barnaby Jack at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas. “Jackpotting Read more…
“Sharing is Caring” in protection for SharePoint 2010
As a child, I was always taught that “sharing was caring”. So I shared my toys with my brothers, shared my candy with sister – and we all got along beautifully, and of course, made our parents happy. Now that same “sharing” philosophy has helped me in my business collaboration of sharing documents and marketing Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Endpoint Protection, SharePoint
Security Tips for Black Hat and DEFCON Attendees
Being a little paranoid when it comes to computer security is a good thing. When you travel to a security event like Black Hat and, in particular, DEFCON, that level of paranoia should be turned up a few notches. I’ll unfortunately miss both events again this year, but my colleagues at McAfee and McAfee Labs will Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Endpoint Protection
Beware Bogus 'Trial' Version of VirusScan
First of all, this is not a sales pitch. McAfee offers several of its products for a trial period. However, we want you to know that we have just found a brand new variant of the Bredolab Trojan that is spreading by email with the following characteristics: Subject: “McAfee VirusScan Plus” Message body: “Download a Read more…
Phishing for Amazon Users
We have noticed two frequent types of spam-phishing attacks targeting Amazon users. These messages at first appear to be legitimate, and the fake Amazon links end in a format such as this:Â <domain /index.php?pid=14>. Every link in the email goes to the same malicious page. One of these emails appears to be an order confirmation from Read more…
Downloader-CJX Cashing In on Microsoft .LNK Flaw
As McAfee Labs predicted in a previous blog post regarding the Microsoft Windows Shell .LNK vulnerability, it was just a matter of time before malware started using Exploit-CVE2010-2568 to take advantage of this new Microsoft zero-day flaw. The flaw is described in CVE-2010-2568. First, there was talk about PWS-Zbot (a.k.a. Zeus) using the vulnerability in Read more…