Travelling Secure with Electronic Devices
This week, Tara McKelvey from BBC News Magazine again reminded us that government agents at borders are universally allowed to inspect, and in most cases detain our possessions as we enter countries –...
View ArticleDear Customer – Turn on the protection features you bought please?
The recent press activity around the New York Times Cyberattack, and the response from their vendor are causing quite a stir in the malware protection community – so much in fact that some journalists...
View ArticleDecrypt Full Disk Encryption products for $299 – Well, it got cheaper at least
Many people have contacted my team and I over the last few days about the recent announcement by ElcomSoft, that they offer a tool to decrypt Bitlocker, PGP and Truecrypt volumes. This $299 tool is...
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The Connected Home – Introducing Little Red Boxes…
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the...
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From Tourist Information to Malware in one easy step…
This week BBC News and others reported that Gibraltar is joining another well known destination, Monmouth UK, by tagging locations around the country with printed 2 dimensional bar codes (QR Codes)...
View ArticleDump IE? Is that really the best advice?
With the news of the latest zero-day exploit for IE gaining press around the globe, there seems to be increasing coverage that “security experts” are advising users to stop using Internet Explorer...
View ArticleSecurity Precautions and Best Practices for ANY Border Crossing
Recently, the New York Times wrote an article titled “Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery.” The article focused on China, and the precautions that some executives take when traveling to that...
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Evil Twitter… Finding malware amongst the maelstrom..
Would it surprise you to know that yesterday, more than 5000 tweets were posted with URLS which would have dropped you on sites which distribute malware? It was only a small portion of the total number...
View Article15 Minutes With… Ben Andrew
Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between Simon Hunt, CTO Endpoint Security and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is Ben Andrew,...
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15 Minutes with… David O’Berry
Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between myself and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is my good friend and occasional...
View ArticlePiggybacking WiFi at 60mph…
I was in Madrid speaking at a conference a couple of months ago, and arriving after one of my favorite trans-Atlantic flights (you know the ones, where the ratio of screaming children to adults is not...
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Take Two Of These Pills And Call Support In The Morning…
“McAfee launches a range of pharmaceutical anti-viral medications to thwart the growing problem of Biological computer viral attacks” Sounds far fetched? Maybe not given that researches at Caltech...
View ArticleMobile Device, Or Not? That Is The Question
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been presenting around the U.S. at events such as Secure360 in St. Paul, and the McAfee Executive Summits in Boston and New York. One question I was asked at every...
View ArticleNet Giants Challenge French Data Law
An interesting story broke this week on BBC News and other sites regarding the Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) in France starting a legal challenge against a new French law passed on...
View ArticleUnderground Economies – The rise of Intellectual Capital Theft.
By now I hope readers have seen our latest report – “Underground Economies” where McAfee and SAIC collaborated to investigate perceptions around intellectual capital – the “secret sauce” of companies....
View ArticleImproving Security On Solid State Drives
Well, One week into the Intel/McAfee relationship and I am pleased to say it’s already bearing fruit. Over the last few days I’ve been reaching out to all my Intel peers, making the connections with...
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Decrypting Civil War Messages..
Over the holiday break an interesting story broke on a US Civil War message being finally decrypted after 147 years. The message was in a bottle that had been stored in a Virginia museum since 1896,...
View ArticleGot (wiki)Leaks? Call a McAfee (DL)Plumber…
With the current news fracas regarding the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, which have reached a pretty interesting juncture with Congressman Peter King asking for WikiLeaks and it’s founder Julian...
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Click Here to See Fluffy Kittens (or Get Malware)…
Following on from my last post where I was talking about efforts we were putting in place to stifle the use of the http://mcaf.ee secure short URL provider by spam merchants, I thought I’d share with...
View ArticleAbout 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...
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