March 24, 2011 - It is unfortunate, but a fact that many organizations are going to suffer hacks. The internet was designed to be a cybercriminal’s dream. That was not the intent of the internet, but the design certainly is such that it serves (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2011 - If you’re responsible for database security and feel like scaring the living daylights out of yourself, check out www.privacyrights.org/data-breach. It’ll give you some idea of just how large of a problem security breaches truly are. Significant breaches (continue reading...) Read more
March 11, 2011 - Another day has passed here at CanSecWest with a mixed bag of results. Overall the content was, again, quite good, PWN2OWN shows us the future, HallCon and BarCon were all kinds of awesome, and I had two distinct “a ha!” (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2011 - Yesterday was a fairly interesting day at CanSecWest, in Vancouver, B.C. I saw many a familiar hacker-face from the game, darn good content overall, and a bit of browser 0wnage thrown in for fun. Brad Woodberg’s session on application firewalls was (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2011 - After hackers successfully penetrated the computer systems of the Canadian federal government, and after McAfee revealed the Night Dragon cyberattack against global oil, gas, and petrochemical companies, it seems to be France’s turn to have their computers infiltrated by hackers (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2010 - Following the success of McAfee’s Focus10 conference in Las Vegas in October, yesterday we offered a similar event in Paris, the first French Focus. Despite the snow that disrupted air and land travel, 236 clients and partners joined us. (continue reading...) Read more
November 18, 2010 - Looking at computer threats from quarter to quarter remains a busy experience for us at McAfee Labs. Through the first three quarters of the year we have analyzed and cataloged more threats than in all other years combined, and the (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - The world’s most heavily trafficked web domain, .COM, is now the riskiest, according to our fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today. A staggering fifty-six percent of all risky sites end in .COM! Researcher at our very own McAfee (continue reading...) Read more
October 20, 2010 - McAfee just hosted its third FOCUS security conference in Las Vegas. I greatly enjoyed the 2008 and 2009 events, and I’ve just returned from the 2010 conference. Of course, I did not miss the keynotes sessions from our CEO (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2010 - When most people think about a virus, they think of a fever, chills, and maybe a potential pandemic. But when they think about a computer virus, they think of a headache, or worse, identity theft. Unusually, one report claims that a (continue reading...) Read more
September 2, 2010 - In 2009, there were a reported 140 million records compromised, compared to 360 million in 2008. In 2010 there have been almost 13 million records stolen. But don’t have a party just yet. Criminals are fine-tuning their craft and getting (continue reading...) Read more
August 25, 2010 - According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there have been 371 data breaches that have exposed 12,871,065 records so far this year in the United States. NetworkWorld reports that businesses suffered the most breaches, making up 35% of the total. (continue reading...) Read more