April 30, 2012 - I am a sucker for online shopping and my current obsession is with books. When you have Fishpond, Book Depository and Borders offering free delivery in addition to highly reduced prices, well – it’s a marriage made (continue reading...) Read more
April 26, 2012 - Candy stores have always had an air of nostalgia about them, and many well-known candy shops have been around for generations. McKeesport Candy Co., one of the oldest wholesale candy companies in the nation, was one of the first (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - “A Strategic Inflection Point is that which causes you to make a fundamental change in business strategy. Nothing less is sufficient.” This quote came from Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder and former CEO. And, while he said this at an annual meeting (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - You want to use cloud services, and you want to do so securely. The notion of secure cloud computing has seemed like a pipe dream in recent history, with most believing it just isn’t possible to put data in (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - Go through your smartphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth upgrading to the paid versions, since free apps that contain (continue reading...) Read more
April 24, 2012 - This morning, we announced McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), an enterprise-class SIEM with true, real-time situational awareness. At its best, situational awareness in IT security is real-time knowledge of every bad actor and potentially damaging event in the changing environment (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - Now that we Moms are becoming tech-savvy, it would be cool to be conversant with the terms related to gadgets we use. One term frequently bandied around is that of apps. Quite a few people have hazy notions about an (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in Microsoft Office and some other Microsoft products. This exploit can be implemented in a variety of file formats, including RTF, Word, and Excel (continue reading...) Read more
April 20, 2012 - On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for a much lower price than we’ve seen elsewhere. (This botnet is mainly used to steal banking information.) The quote (continue reading...) Read more
April 20, 2012 - As more and more businesses move towards virtualization, physical data centers are going the way of the Buffalo. Once a data center has been virtualized, an integral part of the network is moved from the physical island of computing resources (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Your mobile phone may arguably be your new best friend. There are few people, places, or things in our lives today that get as many hours of attention as your mobile phone or is with you as often (and for (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2012 - If your PC is bogged down with useless software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is the increased likelihood that if you have lost (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2012 - Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the CabinCr3w group, a hacker team linked to Anonymous. In early February, as (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Darkmegi was in the news a couple of months back; it was the first known threat to be delivered through the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2012-0003 (MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) exploitation. More recently Darkmegi has been seen in CVE-2011-3544 (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Last month, one of the biggest names in digital and mobile commerce, Global Payments, confirmed a significant security breach affecting 1.5 million credit card holders. Within days, Visa dropped the company from its list of PCI compliant providers. From (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Having just closed my first quarter as the global channels leader at McAfee, I couldn’t be more optimistic about the opportunities for mutual growth in the security market. Now is the ideal time to become a McAfee channel partner. The (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in serious injury or even death. TechNewsWorld (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - I don’t know HOW often I hear these comments when I am out and about: “My son manages all our computers.” “My daughter sends my emails for me.” “My teenage son has installed our security software … and the parental controls.” (No joke!) So, (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - It is with great satisfaction that I closed Q1 in EMEA. In fact we achieved a fantastic quarter! We signed a lot of new customers. We also signed innovative new deals with our existing customers. In addition to our Enterprise (continue reading...) Read more