July 26, 2011 - A new weekly blog post (introduced last week) for McAfee partners which highlights news and information from the previous week. Wow talk about a red carpet welcome…Intel reports 5th consecutive quarter of record revenue. Q2 Comment from Otellini: “It was (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - To all you security companies out there, listen up: “identity theft protection” has become an overused and abused marketing term, which is often used to sell a product or service that doesn’t actually protect users from identity theft. It’s like (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - A new weekly blog post (introduced last week) for McAfee partners which highlights news and information from the previous week. Wow talk about a red carpet welcome…Intel reports 5th consecutive quarter of record revenue. Q2 Comment from Otellini: “It was (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - Let’s face it. Kids will be kids and they will demand what their friends get (those spoiled kids seem to have millionaire parents who delight in buying them the latest gadgets). And so parents like me are (continue reading...) Read more
July 22, 2011 - Sometimes progress can be scary. It was 1986. I was a legal intern at Merrill Lynch working my way through college. At that time, there was no public Internet – and desktop PCs were uncommon in the workplace. In fact, (continue reading...) Read more
July 22, 2011 - Cyber Security Conferences have been around almost as long as Cyber Security itself, but are they worth attending? During this month’s #SecChat, Thursday, July 28 at 11am PT, we want you to sound off and make yourself heard regarding our (continue reading...) Read more
July 21, 2011 - Pharmaceutical megacorp Pfizer's Facebook page was defaced a couple of days ago, and then restored. Responsibility was claimed by a newly-created Twitter account calling itself Script Kiddies. He/she/it (continue reading...) Read more
July 20, 2011 - When I spotted this news article, I was mildly amused at the jokes about kids being on Facebook. Then I noticed the statistic that 7.5 million kids under 13 are on the social network. WHAT??? That is really scary (continue reading...) Read more
July 20, 2011 - You’ve probably heard the phrase “a fox watching the henhouse.” Today, that applies to people on the inside of organizations who work in trusted positions, and who use those positions to steal client or employee information for their own personal (continue reading...) Read more
July 19, 2011 - In a story that could have come right out of a movie, a widely respected police officer turned out to be a Mexican national who stole an American identity and moved to Alaska to become a cop. I’ll bet Sarah (continue reading...) Read more
July 18, 2011 - This is my inaugural blog here at McAfee. For those that don’t know me, I am the new leader of Worldwide Channels Marketing. I am a huge supporter of social media, because it’s an interactive communications platform that allows you (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - Identity theft is big news on the Internet. The general business world, the world of finance, and social networks are regularly attacked by crooks or self-styled hacktivists who use, sell, or just disseminate credentials and private data. But the cybercrime (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - Sometimes I feel like I am a broken record because I am constantly suggesting that people change their passwords and not use the same password for everything. It is surprising to me how many people just have no idea how (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2011 - Yesterday we were disappointed to learn that ZDNet’s Ed Bott had some trouble with McAfee products, which lead him to keep McAfee at the top of his “Not Recommended” list. His poor experience is out of character from what (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2011 - If you happened to read my post, I talked about my friend EQ; she works at a video game store and is really shocked at the number of parents who pay no attention to game ratings and content of (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2011 - 1. Realize that you can become a victim at any time. Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about a new hack. With 55,000 new pieces of malware a day, security never sleeps. 2. Think before you post. Status (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2011 - Yesterday we announced the appointment of Michael Decesare and Todd Gebhart as co-presidents of McAfee. Dave DeWalt will continue to provide strategic guidance and counsel to the company and customers as a nonemployee member of the McAfee Board. Here (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2011 - Data centers have been going through a lot of changes. In the past, it wasn’t unusual to see an organization with dozens or even hundreds of data centers spread out all over the world. As the physical environment of these (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2011 - I had presented McAfee family protection software to some of my friends who have children at home. One of them thanked me and asked what the Parental Control feature was. I enquired, “You mean to say that you do (continue reading...) Read more
July 11, 2011 - Last week, the first annual Mobile Computing Summit was held in Burlingame, CA. The event was put on to emphasize the effective use and management of mobile devices ranging from smartphones and tablets to laptops and beyond, and highlight (continue reading...) Read more