I am very excited to announce a critical milestone in the growth of our Security-as-a-Service business. McAfee has agreed to acquire MX Logic. MX Logic is a leading provider of cloud-based security services including email and web filtering, and email archiving and continuity.
Adding MX Logic’s solutions to McAfee will provide us with the most comprehensive [...]

Today we announced our second quarter 2009 financial results. These results demonstrate that, despite a challenging economic environment, our strategy is working. In addition, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of MX Logic, the leader in cloud-based security. This will help McAfee drive additional growth in the small and midmarket segments and creates the [...]

This week’s (potential) major fail goes to Apple for the iPhone 3GS security. As reported by Wired and others, it seems the new 3GS encryption touted by Apple in their “iPhone Security Overview” isn’t so secure after all.
The official description of the new feature sounds pretty good:
iPhone 3GS offers hardware-based encryption. iPhone 3GS hardware encryption [...]

Following on from my recent posts regarding fines and the cost of data leakage (TJX and Cornell), I thought I’d also bring to your attention the latest initiated by the FSA (Financial Services Authority of UK) against HSBC – On 22nd July A tidy penalty of £4,550,000 ($7.5m) for two failures to protect personal information. HSBC will get a nice 30% discount on this for early payment, leaving them with a bill for £3,185,000 ($5.26m) plus their own internal costs.

Did you know that encryption was part of the stimulus package? Just one sign that consumer privacy has quietly moved to the forefront of legislative priorities. This legislation is the latest in a series of important decisions for protecting consumers and their data.
On February 12, 2002, we forever changed the way we think about consumer [...]

When I was growing up, chain letters were a big thing. “Send this to ten of your closest friends and win $1 million.” They usually promised treasures, good luck and love. Sometimes you knew the sender. Sometimes you couldn’t tell who sent them.
In 1997, when I was writing the “Parents Guide to the Internet” I [...]

My last blog about connecting to free WiFi got me thinking…do you have a wireless internet connection in your home? Is it secure? Do you know?
Watching the film Stop H*Commerce (www.stophcommerce.com) has taught me a lot about cybercrime and how cyber criminals steal information from us.
In the first episode, they show [...]

This is a very exciting time at McAfee. Cloud computing is providing new ways for us to help our customers save time and money. Our industry leading global threat intelligence technologies reside in the cloud and we deliver our applications, over the internet, in a Security-as-a-Service model.Our customers can save time by using our Security [...]

I was flying this week between offices and, being travel-bored and a nosy so-and-so, I zeroed in on an extremely loud conversation taking place between a fellow traveler and what must had been his Bangalore helpdesk.

Personal online accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams, his wife and several of his colleagues have reportedly been compromised and confidential data on the popular social networking company is now being leaked to the media.
TechCrunch on Tuesday reported that it had received a ZIP file containing about 310 documents including “executive meeting notes, partner [...]