One of the best things about the holiday season for me is getting together with my siblings. Some of us live hundreds of miles away from each other, and though we talk on the phone and email, face-to-face conversations are richer and more free-wheeling, and ultimately, more enlightening.
Living and working in Silicon Valley the [...]

I hope you had a lovely holiday.  I am tired and perhaps ate a bit too much, but I had a wonderful time with my family. This past week, I came across a great article in Forbes magazine’s website by Andy Greenberg called “How to Keep Kids Safe Online.”
Go to this link to read the [...]

2008 has been a banner year for McAfee and I’m very proud of what we have accomplished.  We have continued to fight for a noble cause: protecting our customers from the bad guys and looking for new ways to stay ahead.  There have been so many things to be proud of that it’s hard to [...]

On December 4th, McAfee held a webinar called “Shop Safe. Shop Smart.” with Parry Aftab, McAfee’s Family Internet Safety Advisor, and Reema Shown, Director of Marketing from McAfee. For those of you who missed this informative session, Parry gave great gift suggestions as well as great shopping tips. If you have time, I suggest you [...]

Companies today realize the threats and consequences of data loss, and by now most have some sort of data protection in place. But businesses that rushed into data protection for fear of losing precious information may have been too quick to throw together a patchwork quilt of security software that is now proving costly.
In the [...]

It happened again! One of the kids downloaded a virus onto the computer. Again! Well, at least I think it was the kids…until I found out that it was my 70 year old mom who has been using our desktop in addition to the kids. She was opening SPAM! Yes, the McAfee Chief Cyber Security [...]

Thank you so much to the more than 5000 of you that joined the Shop Safe Shop Smart webinar last week. It just shows how many of us are doing more and more of our shopping online these days. From groceries to ipods, it never ceases to amaze me at the variety of items available [...]

 
 
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that a U.S. district court, at the FTC’s request, issued a temporary halt to security software scams by a group of con artists that “tricked more than one million consumers into buying computer security products such as WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus.”
Also known as “scareware,” security software [...]

As part of McAfee’s ongoing efforts to fight cybercrime, we’ve issued a report that looks at how the global recession is affecting cybercriminal activity worldwide.  This is the fourth edition of our Virtual Criminology report and the first edition since the downturn.
Cybercriminals are exploiting the global recession by luring in susceptible victims through the promise [...]

 
Okay, was this a weird coincidence or what?
During the same week that the MacArthur Foundation released a study called “Living and Learning with New Media” that promotes the idea that teenagers need to spend lots of time online because it is “essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need [...]