January 6, 2012 - The New Year is always a time for looking back on the past, and more importantly, looking forward and reflecting on the positive changes we want or need to make in the coming year. McAfee predicts that 2012 will (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - Current DLP solutions rely on text pattern recognition to detect sensitive data and prevent data loss. But how can that protect images, digital media and other high value assets? If DLP could protect digital media, the 2009 leak of (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - Criminal hackers are targeting mobile phones in record numbers, and one increasingly popular technique is to corrupt legitimate applications. Approximately 200 of these maliciously modified apps have been discovered thus far. The amount of malware targeted at Android devices has jumped (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - There are many kinds of risk: operational, legal, and reputational risk. Most large enterprise IT teams are comfortable and proficient at measuring operational risk. It features in reports as minutes of downtime, incidents of endpoint reimages, number of patches installed, (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - Years ago, I was a Mystery Shopper. I signed up with a company who would ask me to go shopping at a particular store or restaurant on a specific day. I had to pay attention to certain things, such as (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - Earlier this week, I was able to sit down with one of our McAfee blog contributors, Leon Erlanger, for a podcast on SEC Security Guidance. Leon published a blog post earlier this month with his thoughts on the (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - Criminals are banking on the fact that you travelled during the busy holiday season, so they create travel-related scams to try to trick you into clicking on dangerous emails. Don’t be surprised if you spot an email that looks like (continue reading...) Read more
January 4, 2012 - A defensive posture no longer suffices for the protection of the devices and data that have become ubiquitous in today’s digital world. Rather than simply rushing to install defenses on computers, in networks, and in the cloud, we urgently need (continue reading...) Read more
January 3, 2012 - As all IT professionals are painfully aware, it is impossible to ignore the role of people in an organization’s information security program. Information security, like everything else, is at its core a human enterprise influenced by factors that impact (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - With 2012 just a few short days away, it’s that time of year when, in the words of McAfee Labs’ Dave Marcus, we “dust off the crystal ball, put on our battered Mr. Wizard hat,” and speculate about what (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - How many of us give a second thought to how the pics we so happily post on our social networking sites could be misused? Today’s Internet-savvy youth rampantly put up all possible pics of self and friends or families to (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2011 - For the eighth scam of Christmas, the criminals gave to me a coupon in exchange for my identity! With the popularity of shows like Extreme Couponing, viewers learn that there are coupons or everything, right? Not so fast! Since my days of (continue reading...) Read more
December 28, 2011 - As soon as you contract with a cloud provider, you should be concerned not only with your IT security but the provider’s as well. If you’re a small or medium-sized business you may assume the provider’s security is superior (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - Each year, McAfee Labs™ looks at the trends that they’ve seen over the past 12 months to make predictions about the types of security threats they expect to see in 2012. While looking into the future can be hit or (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - History is said to be a good indicator of what might come in the future. If you follow trends in how things are done and what tends to gain momentum then you can get a pretty good idea of what’s (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - “Tis the season to be jolly, tra la la la…” Certainly, this is a merry season, especially for hackers! McAfee had recently released a report titled, “Twelve Scams of Christmas,” which identifies the dozen most dangerous online scams this holiday (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - For the Seventh Scam of Christmas the criminals gave to me phishing – but the big phish is me! My father in law mentioned that he got an email saying that he had a package that they couldn’t deliver and he (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2011 - Dear Valued McAfee Channel Partner, As I take a moment to pause and reflect on 2011 I can’t help but think what a year! The past 12 months were filled with momentous occasions and while I’d like to write about all (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2011 - With the release of McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) version 7, McAfee now offers a single email solution that combines the best features of the Secure Computing Email Gateway (IronMail) platform with the McAfee Email and Web Security (EWS) appliance (continue reading...) Read more
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