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A Cyber Arms Race Is Currently Taking Place, 57% of Experts Say

A recent study commissioned by McAfee and produced by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA), a Brussels-based defense and security think-tank, reveals the opinions of policy-makers and cyber-security experts in government, business and academia from 35 countries on the currently existent cyber threats and the measures ...

31 January 2012
10:51 GMT

How to Avoid Stalking Incidents Online

We’ve recently seen that stalking and cyber bullying have become a major issue, many Internet users being affected by the phenomenon, but few trusting that local authorities possess the power to do something about it. Because January is considered the National Stalking Awareness Month, security firm McAfee in ...

25 January 2012
14:51 GMT

Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in McAfee’s SaaS Products (Updated)

Researchers from Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have found a critical vulnerability in McAfee’s Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. Even though McAfee has been notified on the issue since April 2011, the company failed to provide a patch and ZDI disclosed the information in accordance with their 180-day deadline....

17 January 2012
11:00 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Gets McAfee Mobile Security

Lenovo and McAfee have just tightened their partnership, the former having chosen the latter's Mobile Security solutions for its ThinkPad Android tablet. This is one of, if not the first concrete step forward in McAfee's quest to become a main player in the field of mobile security. On that note, this al...

17 January 2012
03:37 GMT

McAfee Mobile Security Begins to Encompass Android Tablets

McAfee, the world renowned security solutions provider, revealed its agreement with Lenovo as a result of which the latter’s ThinkPad tablet will benefit from the protection offered by McAfee’s Mobile Security software. The Android-based device comes preloaded with the security suit that encapsulates Vir...

17 January 2012
03:27 GMT

Hacktivism to Evolve and Spam to Be Legalized in 2012

The predictions made by security company McAfee for 2012 are interesting from all the perspectives that concern companies, governments and individuals. The company’s researchers conclude, based on the events that took place in the year that’s just about to pass, that hacktivist movements will either evo...

30 December 2011
03:07 GMT

McAfee Names Stuart McClure New Worldwide CTO

The world renowned security solutions provider McAfee appointed Stuart McClure as its worldwide chief technology officer. His new role will be to supervise customer requirements, knowledge sharing, strategy, research and patents. Before being named CTO, McClure was the senior VP and general manager or McAfee’s...

6 December 2011
10:04 GMT

McAfee: Threats Differ From One Country to Another

The Third Quarter 2011 report issued by McAfee shows some interesting things relating to mobile malware, attack methods, spam and messaging threats and operations launched by hacktivists.The figures show that mobile malware, especially the one that targets Android platforms increased a lot compared to the previous qu...

21 November 2011
14:11 GMT

McAfee and RSA Release Security and Compliance Solutions for Enterprises

McAfee and RSA signed a partnership at the beginning of the year and now they plan on releasing a new solution that will make sure enterprises benefit from a better visibility into their state of security and a better business-level management of the risks involved.“The McAfee and RSA solution provides greater ...

17 October 2011
09:48 GMT

LG Partners with McAfee to Enhance Mobile Security

Consumers and enterprises will soon be able to benefit from enhanced protection features which will be deployed on LG mobile products by extending McAfee's technologies on all their devices that run an Android operating system. “Security and manageability are critical enablers for enterprises of all siz...

12 October 2011
07:39 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Jimmy Shah, Mobile Security Researcher at McAfee

The Hack in the Box conference has started today in Malaysia and before the speakers take the floor we rushed to the opportunity to talk to another industry expert who will soon share his experience with the world. Jimmy Shah, a mobile security researcher at McAfee will speak at the conference about mobile malware, ...

10 October 2011
10:36 GMT

Mozilla Blocks McAfee Firefox Add-on Due to 'High Volume of Crashes'

Mozilla has moved to block the McAfee Firefox extension ScriptScan and has added it to its blocklist. This means that users are prevented from installing it from the Add-ons Mozilla site and that it will be disabled for Firefox and SeaMonkey users that already have it installed. It's a softblock, meaning that...

6 October 2011
05:46 GMT

McAfee Acquires NitroSecurity

McAfee and NitroSecurity, a security information and event management (SIEM) solutions provider, fully agree on the terms of the future acquisition. With this move the buyer hopes to improve their enterprise services providing a better view of a company's entire network infrastructure. “McAfee is focuse...

5 October 2011
02:27 GMT

McAfee Proposes New Approach on Protecting Mobile Devices and Data

Because of the recent threats posed on companies by cybercriminals, McAfee came up with a three-pronged approach that would considerably increase mobile data, device and application security in the effort of aiding businesses and their customers better protect their machines. “Mobile device adoption is explo...

21 September 2011
03:36 GMT

McAfee and Intel Work Together on New Security Technologies

The new DeepSAFE technology developed by McAfee and Intel will bring innovative advancements to virtual security by making an efficient combination between hardware and software resources that will work from an inferior level compared to the operating system to better detect and prevent potential breaches. Because...

14 September 2011
07:25 GMT

Volume of Malware Increases According to McAfee's Second Quarter 2011 Report

McAfee recently released a second quarter report for 2011 in which they highlight the challenges posed by hacktivist groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous. One of the most important changes that occurred in the malware security field was that mobile platforms became more targeted. In the first quarter of 2011, Andro...

5 September 2011
05:40 GMT

McAfee's Shaddy RAT Is Nothing Spectacular Claim Rivals

Antivirus giant Kaspersky Lab claims that a recent McAfee report about a five-year long cyber espionage operation dubbed Shady RAT intentionally blows the threat out of proportions.In a post on his blog, Kaspersky Lab co-founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky claims that the RAT (remote administration tool) used in the at...

18 August 2011
09:44 GMT

House Rep Questions McAfee over Shady RAT Implications

US Representative Mary Bono Mack has sent a letter to Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research, asking him about the implications of the major cyber espionage operation recently exposed by the company.According to Reuters, Bono Mack, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Commerce, wanted to ...

12 August 2011
10:05 GMT

Sprint Offers Customers McAfee Security Solutions for Android Phones

McAfee, one of world's leading security software developers, and Sprint have just announced that they have teamed up to offer Sprint customers access to McAfee Mobile Security and McAfee Family Protection Android Edition software. Aimed at customers who are worried about the security of their mobile devices, inc...

11 August 2011
14:31 GMT

McAfee Suggests North Korea Was Behind DDoS Against South's Websites

Security giant McAfee claims that DDoS attacks against South Korean websites seen back in March might have been a North Korean exercise.According to a newly published McAfee report called "Ten Days of Rain" [pdf], the malware used to carry out the attacks was configured to disable itself after ten days.Furthermore, i...

6 July 2011
14:14 GMT

McAfee to Police .XXX Domain Space

ICM Registry, the company that will begin selling .xxx domains later this year, has signed an agreement with McAfee to scan all websites in the controversial domain space for malware and vulnerabilities on a daily basis.The Register reports that the deal is valued at around $8 million, but that isn't much to pay...

28 June 2011
12:37 GMT

McAfee to Provide Android Security App to NTT DoCoMo Smartphones

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and McAfee announced that they have signed an agreement to offer customers the VirusScan Mobile security solution on Android smartphones.The McAfee VirusScan Mobile will be provides as an exclusive offering for NTT DOCOMO users of Android smartphones starting July 1st. The application aler...

22 June 2011
12:31 GMT

Intel Won't Include a Hardware Based Antivirus in Its Chips Says McAfee CEO

At the start of the year reports suggested that Intel is working on developing a hardware based antivirus that would come embedded in some of their products, but now McAfee's CEO David DeWalt has dismissed these claims as it stated that Intel won't add antiviral programs to its silicon.The company represent...

28 April 2011
15:31 GMT

Security Holes Exposed on McAfee's Website

McAfee has patched multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) and information disclosure vulnerabilities exposed by ethical hackers in its website.The vulnerabilities were disclosed as zero-days on the Full Disclosure mailing list after McAfee failed to address them for over a month.According to members of the YGN Ethical H...

29 March 2011
09:41 GMT

iOS to Become Important Target for Malware in 2011, McAfee Predicts

Malware targeting Apple’s iOS devices is on the rise, according to McAfee Labs who’s just released its 2011 Threat Predictions report, written by Dmitri Alperovitch, Toralv Dirro, Paula Greve, Rahul Kashyap, David Marcus, Sam Masiello, François Paget, and Craig Schmugar of McAfee Labs. The PDF documen...

29 March 2011
05:05 GMT

Intel Finished Buying McAfee

It appears that one of the more troublesome acquisition of the past few years has finally been completed, that being Intel's buying of the very well known security software developer McAfee.When a company decided to try and acquire a stake or complete ownership of another, the procedures are usually fairly stan...

1 March 2011
04:23 GMT

Intel Allowed to Acquire McAfee by the EU, Has to Abide By Rule

It appears that one of the biggest acquisitions of the past two years is about to be completed, though Intel seems to have found that it will have to abide by a certain condition in exchange for the EU's approval. Some time ago, the entire IT industry raised at least an eyebrow upon learning of Intel's pla...

28 January 2011
09:05 GMT

McAfee Names MyDoom 'Exploit' of the Decade

In a newly published report about the evolution of cybercrime during the past decade, McAfee named the MyDoom worm as the most damaging malware threat.Dubbed "A Good Decade for Cybercrime," McAfee's report [pdf] looks at how the threat landscape evolved from a battleground of rival hackers seeking notoriety to a...

26 January 2011
04:52 GMT

Intel Acquisition of McAfee Not Seen in a Favorable Light by the EU

Those users keeping track of such things will know that the European Commission and Intel do not have a very pleasant history, and the former seems to again be suspicious of the latter's activities. Ever since the European Commission fined Intel $1.45 billion for antitrust charges, it seems to have kept close w...

20 December 2010
04:43 GMT

McAfee's URL Shortener Can Be Used to Help Attacks

In an example of how a PR idea can turn against the company it was meant to promote, McAfee’s allegedly secure URL shortening service can be used by phishers to bypass URL filters and enhance attacks.The security giant launched its own URL shortener, called mcaf.ee, back in September, based on an idea from its ...

6 December 2010
05:36 GMT

Number of New Daily Malware Samples Reaches All Time High

McAfee reports that during the previous quarter, the daily malware growth has averaged at 60,000 new samples, which is the highest value ever recorded.According to the security giant, the number of threats detected this year (14 million) also exceeds the number analyzed in all previous years."In 2007 we identified on...

17 November 2010
13:48 GMT

VN Is the World's Riskiest Country Domain Extension

According to a report from security giant McAfee, the Internet domain extension for Vietnam (.VN) is the riskiest country code TLD (ccTLD) in the world, and accounts for more malicious domains than clean ones.McAfee publishes malicious top-level domain (TLD) trends once a year in a report called "Mapping the Mal Web....

29 October 2010
07:30 GMT

McAfee EMM 9.0 Adds iOS 4 Real-Time Jailbreak Detection

McAfee has announced the release of its McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management 9.0, based on the Trust Digital Platform, which the company acquired earlier this year. The McAfee EMM platform reportedly deepens support for iPhone and other iOS devices by supporting iOS 4 and MDM, full and selective device wipe real-tim...

12 October 2010
09:48 GMT

WinPatrol Developer Says McAfee False Positive Affected His Business

Bill Pytlovany, the creator of WinPatrol, blames McAfee for lost customers after the security giant was inexplicably slow in resolving a false positive incident.WinPatrol is a HIPS-type application, which makes use of several behavioral sensors to detect and block potentially malicious software.In order to make its d...

11 October 2010
10:50 GMT

McAfee Launches Its Own URL Shortener

McAfee has launched a new URL shortening service over at McAf.ee, which leverages the security vendor's threat intelligence to determine if the destination URLs are malicious or not.Shortened URLs grew in popularity along with Twitter, the website where they truly made a difference, due to the 140 character limi...

21 September 2010
12:20 GMT

Intel to Buy Security Giant McAfee for $7.68 Billion in Cash

Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock for $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies.The deal, which is part of Intel's new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy efficiency, has still to get the go ahea...

19 August 2010
10:14 GMT

McAfee to Improve Mobile Security with Acquisition of tenCube

McAfee announced it has reached an agreement to acquire tenCube, the developer of the WaveSecure security solution which protects the mobile phone, data and privacy in the event of theft or loss. McAfee plans to combine tenCube’s locate, lock, backup and wipe technology with Trust Digital's enterprise mobi...

30 July 2010
04:53 GMT

McAfee Launches Internet Security, Family Protection Bundles for Mac OS X

McAfee has launched its new Internet Security and McAfee Family Protection for Mac. The former allows consumers to surf the web safely, while the latter allows parents to filter inappropriate content from their children, the world’s largest dedicated security company said in a report dated July 22.The company t...

22 July 2010
05:01 GMT

McAfee Signs OEM Deals to Install Antivirus Technology on USB Devices

McAfee has announced partnerships with two-thirds of secure USB device manufacturers in the world, to pre-install an antivirus solution on their products. The technology prevents copying files to the device if the host computer is infected.The antivirus giant has signed OEM partnerships with companies like Kingston D...

6 July 2010
05:43 GMT

McAfee Supports iOS 4 with Trust Digital EMM Suite

McAfee, Inc., the world's largest dedicated security technology company, has released its Trust Digital enterprise mobility management platform for devices running iOS 4, the company confirmed in a July 1 report. The software provides a seamless upgrade path for existing Trust Digital EMM customers, according to...

1 July 2010
09:41 GMT

McAfee Launches Anti-Malware Solution for Android

Today, McAfee, Inc. announced the launch of its anti-malware solution for Android-based mobile phones. The company's McAfee VirusScan Mobile technology is currently available for the SK Telecom customers in Korea owning handsets powered by Google's Android operating system and by Microsoft's Windows M...

29 April 2010
10:30 GMT

XP SP3 BSOD Crashes Because of w32/wecorl.a McAfee False Positives

Customers running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and McAfee security solutions in concert have been left scrambling to restore their computers after an issue involving a specific Virus Definition (DAT) file version caused a false positive detection of the w32/wecorl.a virus. The problems are generated by v.5958 of the McA...

22 April 2010
09:54 GMT

McAfee Definitions Update Crashes Millions of Computers

A malware definitions update pushed by antivirus giant McAfee to its customers yesterday contained a buggy detection routine that caused millions of computers to go into a reboot loop. The severe system instability issue resulted from erroneous blocking of the critical svchost.exe file on computers running Windows XP...

22 April 2010
04:02 GMT

McAfee Will Offer Free Six-Month Subscriptions to Facebook Users

Facebook and McAfee announced on January 13, 2009 a partnership through which over 350 million Facebook users will benefit at no cost of a free six-month subscription to McAfee's Internet Security Suite security software. After this six-month period, Facebook users will have the possibility to extend their licen...

13 January 2010
10:40 GMT

McAfee Pinpoints the Web's Riskiest Domains

Security giant McAfee has released its annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report, in which it analyzes the percentage of domains found to host malicious content and organizes the results by TLD and type of threats. The riskiest TLD this year was .cm, Cameroon's country code, with over one in three domains ...

3 December 2009
09:08 GMT

McAfee Launches the Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5

McAfee, one of the world's leading providers of security solutions and antivirus products, announced today the debut of its new Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5, specifically designed to meet the security requirements of SMB customers. The solution, which integrates both email and Web security solutions in a...

5 November 2009
07:15 GMT

McAfee Enhances Endpoint Protection for Mac OS X

In an official report, McAfee Inc. reveals that it has expanded its endpoint-protection products for Mac OS X with the release of McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac. The company now offers a comprehensive endpoint-protection solution that surpasses traditional anti-virus pieces of software, according to the official ...

15 October 2009
10:18 GMT

Jessica Biel Tops McAfee's Celebrity Malware List

Security company McAfee made public its recent annual report on celebrity-related Internet malware threats. This year, due to a highly publicized relationship with singer Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel has snatched the number one spot on the list from R&B singer Beyonce. Last year's top threat, Brad Pitt, has d...

26 August 2009
06:56 GMT

US District Court Rules Against McAfee-Owned Company

The US District Court of Delaware has issued a verdict in the case between Finjan Inc. and Secure Computing Corporation for several patent infringements. The court also permitted and ruled an injunction against the retail of McAfee-owned products Webwasher and TSP. The above-mentioned products, according to the Dist...

20 August 2009
10:16 GMT

McAfee to Acquire MX Logic

McAfee has recently announced its plans to acquire Web and Email security provider and cloud-based technology pioneer MX Logic for $140 million. The deal is expected to be finalized by the third quarter of 2009, with the MX Logic team reporting to McAfee's Software-as-a-Service business unit. MX Logic is a comp...

3 August 2009
07:25 GMT


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