December 21, 2009 - McAfee channel partners are accustom to regular email newsletters and I would like to extend the latest to the social web. Below, you’ll find a feature highlighting the top reasons to partner with McAfee in 2010, provided by Fernando Quintero, VP of Channels for the Americas at (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - The People's Daily Online (citing Xinhua) is reporting that 11 people in east China have been convicted of writing and distributing malware designed to steal usernames and passwords for online games. The (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - During the course of security research we often acquire new malware samples. We typically first try to determine what we have acquired and if it is a new or otherwise unknown malware sample or if it is a mutation of something (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Joanna Rutkowska of Invisible Things Lab has disclosed a new vulnerability in certain Intel processors. The SINIT feature of SMM (System Management Mode) can interfere with TXT (Trusted eXecution Technology), allowing (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Symantec Hosted Web Security Service blocks millions of web requests every day to protect employees from content that is either against company policy, or malicious. In a typical week (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - A spokes-elf for Santa Claus has acknowledged that the database posted recently at WikiLeaks was indeed the (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - One element of unfinished business in 2009 is the appointment of a "cybersecurity czar". Candidate Barack Obama made a big deal out of the need for such a person and specifically (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Ketchup stains. Klingons. Exploding monitors. They’re all part of our fiendishly clever new music video, “Hacker’s Holiday.” Pity poor Tiny Tim. He gets a shiny new PC for Christmas and doesn’t bother to protect it. Well, you can guess the (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 17 Announcements A new blog post has been released from Marcus Ranum titled, "Afterbites with Marcus Ranum: Gartner & Two-Factor Authentication" You can provide feedback to this podcast and all of our (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - McAfee Labs blogger David Marcus got some strange IMs in Facebook from a friend over the weekend. His friend's IMs extolled the virtues of a particular colon-cleansing product, a "funny video" that led to a Facebook phishing site, and (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - In a way, it's not much of a gift, since OnlineFamily.Norton is free. But hey, it's the thought that counts, right? And you (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - When Amit Agarwal realized that someone had successfully taken control of his Google accounts, including GMail, he got that sinking feeling that his private life and his business were compromised. But (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - I ran into a few strange IMs over the weekend. When I was not shoveling out my driveway from the 15 inches of snow that covered it I was logged into Facebook telling people about it…. It was then that (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - We have recently received queries from customers about the official exclusion list recommendations from Microsoft. It seems that they have published a Knowledge Base entry that lists down recommendations to improve performance in Windows when running antivirus scanners. This list (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Tricking users into downloading rogue AV is an age-old cybercriminal tactic that still works. Hence the continuous rise in the number of rogue AV pushed to unwitting scam victims up to this day. In fact, the FBI just recently warned (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - In an article by Dancho Danchev, he illustrated Trend Micro’s prediction that cloud hosting services such as Amazon EC2M can be easily used for (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - The latest episode of the Risky Business podcast is now online. Patrick Gray and I spoke about the recent SANS Incident Detection Summit and how forensics, security monitoring and the detection of advanced persistent threats is gaining more awareness (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Sadly, actress Brittany Murphy passed away over the weekend. With her unfortunate passing will come the inevitable web searches that lead Internet users to some potentially unsafe sights. This has been a well established trend throughout 2009. It is a (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2009 - Our end-of-year Data Security Wrap-up video was published yesterday.You can watch it via the lab's YouTube Channel:Data Security Wrap-up 2009 (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2009 - Motive We recently had the opportunity to revisit a threat that first appeared on our radar back in May of this year. W32.Qakbot (hereafter referred to as Qakbot) is a somewhat benign worm that is capable of spreading through (continue reading...) Read more