February 17, 2011 - According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were at least 662 data breaches in 2010, which exposed more than 16 million records. Nearly two-thirds of breaches exposed Social Security numbers, and 26% involved credit or debit card data. The (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - I just love uploading photos @jibjab.com and posting my finished projects on Facebook. It’s silly and fun and makes my family laugh. But move over JibJab, there’s a new interactive video in town! The new video just debuted on the McAfee (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - Next time you open a new web account, say a social networking, net banking or even a e-bill payment account, or operate an existing one, do spend some time pondering on the choice of your password. The findings of a survey (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2011 - We lose stuff. You put something down, you get distracted, you forget about it and it’s gone. Stuff falls out of our pockets and bags all the time. I’m one of those people that’s so smart, I’m stupid and absent (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - What a folly of a report illuminating nothing but questions for AV performance for VMware virtualized environments with three top antivirus companies? Normally a head-to-head comparison would include like-for-like products. However, not this report. The McAfee MOVE AV for VDI, (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - More than 20 million Americans have multiple Social Security numbers (SSNs) associated with their name in commercial records according to a new study announced in December from ID Analytics, Inc. The study found that rather than serving as a unique identifier, (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - I lost my phone only once. It was way back in the early 90’s when a cell phone was not a requirement and certainly before your whole life was kept in the memory of the blasted thing. Still, I have (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - My netizen daughter was sharing an entry on her Facebook page with me…I happen to scroll down the page and my eyes fell on the photograph of this really good-looking girl. Curious, I asked, “Hey! Who is this beauty?” “A college pal.” “And who (continue reading...) Read more
February 13, 2011 - Roses are Red, Violets are blue, on Valentine’s Day don’t let the Cybercrooks scam you! Valentine’s Day many of us have our heads in the clouds, thinking of our loved ones…. Or the ones we’d like to love! :) But (continue reading...) Read more
February 11, 2011 - When someone works under your name, it can cause lots of headaches and sometimes results in financial loss. One common loss is the time lost in clearing up the employment fraud, and as we know, time is money. Lancasteronline.com reports (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2011 - I know I couldn’t. I’ve got my whole life wrapped up in it and I’m at its beck and call – from keeping a track of kids’ dentist appointments to listening to music to keeping up with my Cybermum tweets… (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2011 - In January, the European Union provided its approval of the Intel acquisition of McAfee – this was the last major regulatory hurdle for the acquisition – and we are on track to close the transaction later this quarter. As I think (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2011 - The latest MMS scam in India has got me really worried. First, it occurred in an institute of higher studies, so presumably the executors and the victim had all crossed their troubled teens. Second, it shows that girls can equal, (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 9, 2011 - With Valentine’s Day around the corner, many single people return to thoughts of finding love online. But while your head is in the online clouds, you should know – and sorry to sound like a parent – that cyberscammers may (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - Kama Sutra… Koobface? Believe it or not these two things are not unrelated. They are two ways criminal hackers are trying to get to you this Valentine ’s Day. The “Kama Sutra powerpoint” arrives as spam in your inbox. The (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - Yesterday was “Safer Internet Day” in the European Union. To mark the occasion, Eurostat, the statistical office of the E.U., released a selection of statistics on Internet security: “Nearly one third of internet users in the (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2011 - In a small Maine town, local school officials buck state requirements and tell parents not to give out their child’s Social Security number. The Bangor Daily reports “School departments across the state are required by a new state law to (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2011 - Ahh Valentine’s Day is just around the corner… the day when we wear our heart on our sleeve… Not so fast! Online dating can find you a mate, but chances are you might find some scams while you are looking for (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