Today we announced our first quarter 2009 financial results. These results demonstrate that, despite a challenging economic environment, our strategy is working.

In the first quarter of 2009, we continued to take market share and outpace the growth of other companies in our space. According to the results:
• Reported revenue was $448 million for Q1, up 21% [...]

As the swine flu outbreak reaches near pandemic levels, cybercriminals continue to use the flu scare as bait to scam Internet users.

About five percent of global spam volume now mentions “swine flu” to trick people into opening the e-mail message. That could amount to billions of messages each day. McAfee Avert Labs has seen between [...]

Many years ago, I had a checkbook stolen. My husband and I were only married for a few years, had a toddler and not a lot of money in the bank. Somewhere in the few blocks between my daycare provider’s house and our condo, I guess I had dropped the checkbook. I retraced my steps [...]

I get emails every single day from people who don’t know where to report things when they go wrong. They fear that they are being scammed on ebay, or have had their creditcard information stolen and misused. They don’t know if they are in a phisher’s database as an easy mark and aren’t sure if [...]

According to Consumer Reports, U.S. consumers have lost close to $8.5 billion to cybercrime over the last two years. Unfortunately many people don’t know they have become a victim or even what cybercrime is. To help solve that problem, McAfee today launched the Cybercrime Response Unit (CRU), a free service that demystifies cybercrime and offers [...]

Happy Earth Day! For the past 20 years, whether I have participated in Earth Day festivities or not, it has been a day of reflection for me. For many years, I thought about the impact humans have on the earth and what that means for our children. This year however, I am really taking matters [...]

Update: Watch McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt’s RSA Conference keynote on Predictive Security and also view my video on the topic.
The year started off really well for malware authors, with the Conficker worm infecting millions of computers. Threats are not only increasing on a daily basis but they are also getting smarter in leveraging multiple vectors [...]

44% of teen boys we polled told us they had seen at least one naked photo of a fellow female classmate. And who are these girls? The slutty fast teens? The ones we would expect to do things like take a nude photo or engage in real or mock sex and share it with the [...]

With the very sad story of Jessica Logan in the news recently, “sexting” has become a catch phrase in the media. I find most parents still don’t really understand what it is and most kids don’t know what the consequences are for participating. If you remember, Jessica was the young teen who committed suicide after [...]

Pics, pics and pics! Taking, sharing and commenting on pictures and videos online is one of teens’ favorite pastimes. They take them using their cell phones, Xbox 360, pocket video cameras and wifi-capable digital cameras. They store them on their DS and PSP devices, computers, flash drives, media cards and online services. The good thing [...]