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In the Wake of the Week: Building Channel Momentum
In this week’s blog we continue our channel recognition momentum, showcase an outstanding new SMB tool, talk about the short quarter, and provide resources to learn more about McAfee’s acquisition of Nitro Security, a new certification service, where to find free-trials of McAfee SaaS, get access to Partner Summit keynotes, and highlights from our Q3 Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner, McAfee Labs, McAfee Labs Q3 Threat Report, McAfee Partner Summit, mobile malware, NitroSecurity, PCI, PCI DSS, SaaS, SMB, SMB Advisor Tool
BitCoin: Trust Going Bad
In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto had an idea: a digital currency that could be used without bank or central entities, based on the trust the users had for each other. With the help of public-key cryptography and the Internet, members of this peer-to-peer network could tell if a user was legitimate and allow transactions from and to Read more…
Tags: identity fraud, malware, McAfee Labs
Blue-Light Special on Zeus
With much fanfare and much to the chagrin of ne’er-do-wells far and wide, the Zeus Toolkit source code has been released to the public. This is notable because normally it would cost quite a bit to purchase the kit and associated services (in excess of of US$10,000). With a release of this sort, the most Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, Cybercrime, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, Network Security, Risk and Compliance
Evolving DDoS Botnets: 2. Darkness
In the first part of this series we had a close look at the BlackEnergy bot. DDos botnets have been continuously evolving in the recent past. Recently, in December of last year, we came across a new DDoS bot found to be fairly active in the wild targeting a number of websites. During our analysis, the samples Read more…
Tags: botnets, Cybercrime, DDoS, McAfee Labs
Massive Phishing Attacks Strike Bank of China Users
We have noticed a lot of SMS-based web-phishing attacks in China targeting the Bank of China’s online users. They received a phishing SMS that is designed to look like it was sent by the bank as a reminder to its customers: “Dear user, your token has expired, please visit http://www.boc**.com to reactivate your token.” The URL is similar to Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, McAfee Labs, Network Security
McAfee Labs Chile Office Grand Opening
Earlier this year, McAfee Labs announced that we were planning on opening a new research and development center in Chile, which is intended to add another additional site to our R&D global footprint. A detailed Q&A interview was published on why McAfee Labs chose Santiago, Chile to build its new Center of Excellence. Now, I am Read more…
Tags: Chile, Malware Experience, McAfee Labs
First European Cybersecurity Exercise Tests Communication, Cooperation
Following the example of the United States with its “Operation Cyber Storm,” the European Union members, jointly supported by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), last week started and completed the first pan-European cybersecurity simulation, “Cyber Europe 2010.” With more than 150 experts from 70 public Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, government, McAfee Labs, Network Security, Public Sector
A New Ichitaro Vulnerability
JustSystem has released an advisory for a new vulnerability discovered in their Japanese word processor called “Ichitaro” in September. The patch of this vulnerability has already been published by the vendor. McAfee Labs has been observing a number of crafted jtd files (detected as Exploit-TaroDrop.i trojan) exploiting this vulnerability since mid-September. Many types of backdoor trojan Read more…
Tags: McAfee Labs, vulnerability
Reputation and Global Threat Intelligence
Last year we made a promise to our customers and partners to develop the most advanced threat intelligence in the industry. And we have. Now, while the Security Connected blog isn’t about McAfee solution pitches, we have shown that Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) is a critical part of any enterprise security program. GTI (not to Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, McAfee Labs, Mid-Market
About Spam Sites, Malware and Heated Lunchtime Conversations
This last week we’ve been having some heated (but friendly) discussions between the McAf.ee team and the Global Threat Intelligence teams. The problem we’ve been discussing is quite interesting – it’s how to rank, or what to do about spam sites? You know the ones, Canadian Pharmacy etc, The sites which advertise “Click here to Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security, McAfee Labs
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