Piggybacking 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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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 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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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 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...
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...
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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)...
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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...
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...
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 ArticleTravelling 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 –...
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Spring Cleaning Time – What to know When Buying and Selling Used Devices
image: Tech News Daily Spring is in the air; it is the traditional time to clean house, tidy away things you don’t use, and for us geeks, time to dispose of all the old, tech gadgets that we’ve...
View ArticleCES2015 – A festival of uncontrolled IOT and Smart devices.
The Internet of Things (IOT) and “smart devices” were THE big thing at CES this year – the show was flooded with novel gadgets from every manufacturer – from smart connected coffee makers, health...
View ArticleUnderstanding Internet Of Things for the Home
Last week Rory Cellan-Jones, a reporter for the BBC, tried to explain in his CES2015 news article why we, all of us, should be interested in the progress of “Internet of Things” (IoT) for the home....
View ArticleFive Things I Don’t Like About Cloud Security for Homeowners (and One Thing I...
For a while now I’ve been working to define an architecture for securing homes from cyber threats – not just your PC or Mac – we have that covered with our award winning products – I’m worried about...
View ArticleSmart Home, or Dumb Home/Smart Cloud?
At the end of my street, tucked between some bushes and a tree in someone else’s garden, is a weathered beige box. I’d never noticed it before this week, but it’s become very important to me, because...
View Article10 Things You Don’t Want To Know About Bitlocker
With the forthcoming release of Windows 7, questions about “Bitlocker” are coming up again. For those of you who were around during the original release of Bitlocker, or as it was known then “Secure...
View ArticleVulnerability in Some Secure USB Sticks
Recently a slew of news sites announced a newly discovered vulnerability (care of the German Security firm SySS) on a range of supposedly “secure” consumer USB sticks. With the right tools and...
View ArticleEugene School Leaks “Potential” 26,000 Records
This week, datalossdb.org reported the first major suspected PII breach of the year, reported by George Russel, Superintendant of the Eugene School District of Oregon. Apparently some suspicious...
View ArticleTPM "Undressed…"
Recently it was announced (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wirestory?id=9780148&page=1) with much fanfare that the now-ubiquitous “TPM” chip found in most modern computers had been hacked. This...
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