I have been doing the rounds of TV shows in North America over the past couple days. Everyone from Good Morning America to CNN International to CTV wants to hear about this “groundbreaking” case of a model who was bashed online. The case has been incorrectly described as the “first time a victim of cyberbashing [...]

I have to admit, I am not much of a celebrity gossip gal. Chalk it up to having lived in L.A. and seeing the real deal in person. However, I will admit, I do occasionally have to Google celebrities to find out who the kids are talking about! I know that there are many people [...]

With the forthcoming release of Windows 7, questions about “Bitlocker” are coming up again.
For those of you who were around during the original release of Bitlocker, or as it was known then “Secure Startup,” you’ll remember that it was meant to completely eliminate the necessity for third party security software. Yes, Bitlocker was going to [...]

The U.S. Government gets it. The Administration gets it. The Pentagon gets it. The connections fused by networks and cyberspace have simultaneously made us powerful and weak. It’s a challenging paradox that often accompanies innovation – think e-mail, smartphones, social networks, etc.
The big question: How do you balance productivity with security?
It is this question, as [...]

The McAfee Network Security Platform is entering a new phase of its evolution. 
1. Fastest – We’ve recently released the M-series, which scales Intrusion Prevention from 100Mbps to over 10Gbps. 
2. Most Accurate – NSS Labs has awarded the M-8000 NSS Gold Certification for accuracy. 
3. General Leader – Gartner has placed us in the Leader’s quadrant for the 5th year.  [...]

There is light at the end of the tunnel – risk and compliance technologies and standards are relieving auditors and businesses in this age of increased electronic accountability. On the heels of our integration of SolidCore’s technology, researchers from McAfee Avert Labs have laid out the compliance challenges facing organizations, and the new standards which can [...]

With Web applications and Web 2.0 beginning to take center stage in most enterprises, it’s not surprising that IT efforts and budgets to secure this Web traffic are beginning to reflect this shift. IDC notes that the Web security market is expected to nearly double from 2008 to 2013 in their recently released Worldwide Web [...]

A few years ago, I got a letter in the mail from my bank. The letter stated that my VISA debit card may have been compromised because I had recently shopped at a TJX store. It turns out, my card was canceled in time and no and unauthorized charges were made. According [...]

My mother was looking for a job a few months ago. Because she knows her way around the computer a bit, she was using it to find a job. The problem? She didn’t realize that not all the jobs that were hitting her email inbox were from legitimate companies. One of those [...]

Twitter and other social networking sites continue to be really popular with people of all ages – but mostly adults still. Yes, that’s right! Even grandparents are jumping on board to social networks!
By now you should know what Twitter is if not from my past blogs then perhaps by how you can’t watch television [...]