On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 sites affiliated with South Korean government, military and civilian critical infrastructure as well as U.S. Forces Korea Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, cyberwar, distributed denial of service, North Korea, Public Sector, South Korea
Recently I have been meeting with customers and resellers throughout Italy and Spain and it was interesting to hear that their needs from a security partner are very similar to those from the other countries I have recently visited. I have started to see strong interest in the McAfee DLP, Database Protection and Encryption technologies Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, EMEA, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a top ten list of cybersecurity tips for small businesses as part of National Small Business Week. I had the privilege of sitting on a panel convened by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski this morning to discuss securing and empowering small businesses with technology. Small businesses are a major Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, credit card fraud and protection, Cybercrime, Data Protection, Mid-Market, Public Sector, Small Business
On Tuesday, McAfee and CSIS issued our second annual critical infrastructure report, “In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks.” The good news? We took a close look at the sectors that affect you on a daily basis—power, oil, gas, and water—sectors that may well be the first targets of a serious cyberattack. The bad news? Read more…
Yesterday, McAfee released “In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks,” a sequel report focused on the critical civilian infrastructure that depends most heavily on industrial control systems. Our 2011 report is a follow up to last year’s “In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyberwar“. As our VP of Threat Intelligence Phyllis Schneck Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, enterprise, Public Sector, Stuxnet
Decades ago when the early communications networks were formed, scientists rallied around the joy of sending data at light speed and happily connected once-disparate networks together to create the early stages of the “Internet.” This capability eventually enabled conversations, money transfers, massive data sharing, and the confluence of convenience and efficiencies unlike any the world Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, enterprise, Public Sector, Stuxnet
I had the privilege of speaking before the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies at a hearing titled “Examining the Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure and the American Economy.” I was pleased to have the opportunity to provide McAfee’s perspective on the threats that face our nation’s infrastructure, as well as provide Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, enterprise, Mid-Market, Night Dragon, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance
Find out how partners are positively impacted by the Intel acquisition of McAfee
Tags: Acquisition, Channel Partners, Dave DeWalt, enterprise, intel, Mid-Market, partners, Public Sector
We are very pleased to report that Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee today. The transaction cleared reviews by the US. Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission, and other regulatory bodies and received overwhelming votes of approvals from the appropriate boards of directors and stockholders. For McAfee customers, it’s business as usual and better. McAfee Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, enterprise, intel, Mid-Market, Public Sector
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 households have already replaced turntables for the latest technologies. Equally the latest published shopping trends Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security, malware, Network Security, Public Sector, social responsibility
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