December 2, 2009 - We have just released “Mapping the Mal Web,” our third report revealing the riskiest and safest web domains to surf and search. For the first time combining data from McAfee’s SiteAdvisor and TrustedSource, the report is even (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - On December 1st McAfee Labs detected an outbreak of a spam mail pretending to be from the CDC and using the H1N1 virus to facilitate the distribution of a Zeus Trojan executable. The email claims that the CDC is (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - National unemployment rates over 10% and the pressures of the holiday shopping season make for a dangerous cocktail that the cyber criminals can take advantage of. Fears of not being able to pay the monthly mortgage, car payments, backed up (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2009 - Security breaches, laptop theft, and identity theft happen all the time, and these crimes increase every year. The need for people to become more aware of their digital presence and the threats surrounding it is vital. The pace at which these (continue reading...) Read more
November 29, 2009 - We discussed in a recent blog how Google Reader has become an unwitting spam target. We now see the same behavior in a recent variant of Koobface. This variant uses the Google Reader page to host the malware. Once the (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Information regarding another zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web browser affecting version 6 and 7 has been published as Proof-of-Concept over the weekend. The vulnerability lies in a missing check when accessing a website’s Stylesheet markup information through the (continue reading...) Read more