December 13, 2011 - Would it surprise you to know that yesterday, more than 5000 tweets were posted with URLS which would have dropped you on sites which distribute malware? It was only a small portion of the total number of tweets containing URLs, around (continue reading...) Read more
November 9, 2011 - Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between Simon Hunt, CTO Endpoint Security and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is Ben Andrew, Senior Product Manager for Virtualization Security. So Ben, care to tell us (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between myself and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is my good friend and occasional co-presenter, David O’Berry CSSLP, CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, CRMP. Now a McAfee Strategic systems (continue reading...) Read more
September 7, 2011 - I was in Madrid speaking at a conference a couple of months ago, and arriving after one of my favorite trans-Atlantic flights (you know the ones, where the ratio of screaming children to adults is not conducive to rest or (continue reading...) Read more
June 17, 2011 - “McAfee launches a range of pharmaceutical anti-viral medications to thwart the growing problem of Biological computer viral attacks” Sounds far fetched? Maybe not given that researches at Caltech have successfully engineered a biological computer which can calculate square roots using (continue reading...) Read more
June 8, 2011 - For the last couple of weeks I’ve been presenting around the U.S. at events such as Secure360 in St. Paul, and the McAfee Executive Summits in Boston and New York. One question I was asked at every event, (continue reading...) Read more
May 19, 2011 - The recent arrival of Google’s Chromebook — a gadget designed to run only a Web browser — was heralded by some as spelling the end of antivirus and a nail in the coffin for companies that sell antivirus (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2011 - A couple of years ago a good friend phoned me in a panic – his car had been stolen. A major inconvenience admittedly but he managed to replace it, and there were no further attempts from the criminals to contact (continue reading...) Read more
April 7, 2011 - An interesting story broke this week on BBC News and other sites regarding the Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) in France starting a legal challenge against a new French law passed on March 1, 2011, (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2011 - By now I hope readers have seen our latest report – “Underground Economies” where McAfee and SAIC collaborated to investigate perceptions around intellectual capital – the “secret sauce” of companies. The report surveyed over 1,000 senior (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2011 - Well, One week into the Intel/McAfee relationship and I am pleased to say it’s already bearing fruit. Over the last few days I’ve been reaching out to all my Intel peers, making the connections with people which were (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - In 2010 McAfee Labs processed an average of almost 55,000 pieces of new malware every day. That nearly mind-numbing amount makes it difficult for any particular attack to stand out. Today, however, I want to highlight one large (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2011 - You know I always thought that at some point, printed books would go the same way as vinyl. Despite sporadic revivals by the music industry and its use by particular groups such as the electronic and “mixmasters,” the majority of (continue reading...) Read more
January 19, 2011 - Over the holiday break an interesting story broke on a US Civil War message being finally decrypted after 147 years. The message was in a bottle that had been stored in a Virginia museum since 1896, but had never been (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2010 - How much? It’s a simple question really, and one that I know the security professional often finds very difficult to answer when trying to justify mitigating risks to business. I mean what exactly is the financial impact of a virus outbreak? (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2010 - With the current news fracas regarding the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, which have reached a pretty interesting juncture with Congressman Peter King asking for WikiLeaks and it’s founder Julian Assange to be declared “Terrorists and spies”, I thought (continue reading...) Read more
November 11, 2010 - Following on from my last post where I was talking about efforts we were putting in place to stifle the use of the http://mcaf.ee secure short URL provider by spam merchants, I thought I’d share with you (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - This last week we’ve been having some heated (but friendly) discussions between the McAf.ee team and the Global Threat Intelligence teams. The problem we’ve been discussing is quite interesting – it’s how to rank, or what to do (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2010 - We’ve just released a new report, along with researchers from Purdue’s CERIAS group, on the use of Web 2.0 and social networking technologies in business. Researchers surveyed of more than 1,000 business leaders in 17 countries, and found (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2010 - A pet project of mine for a couple of months now, McAfee’s secure-short URL service http://mcaf.ee went through a viral launch last week and has taken flight! Leveraging McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, McAf.ee lets you create short url’s (continue reading...) Read more