McAfee grabs Foundstone
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The former plans to team up its intrusion prevention technology with the latter's vulnerability management software.
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McAfee, Inc. today announced the availability of "Image Spam, the New Email Scourge," a whitepaper designed to explain how image spam has evolved, why it is more difficult than text spam for most anti- spam filters to detect, and what McAfee is doing to help customers combat the problem.
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ActiveX also enters into the equation If you have RealPlayer installed and use Internet Explorer to browse the web, beware: an exploit in circulation can allow an attacker to take complete control of your machine, Symantec is warning.â¦
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BRUSSELS -- Microsoft is working to hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. charged in a full-page ad in yesterday's Financial Times.
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Symantec, McAfee hope raising virus-definition fees will move users to   suites.
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After less than six months as CEO of McAfee, Dave DeWalt is bullish on his company's plans to push further into the enterprise field, partner with Microsoft and press rivals like Symantec. He spoke with Computerworld recently about where his company is going.
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Milano â McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), il principale fornitore di soluzioni per la prevenzione delle intrusioni, annuncia che lâintera gamma dei propri prodotti supportano Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) con tecnologie di sicurezza avanzate.
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Finding your data's undisclosed location made simple Accutrac Software has moved Iron Mountain to reach for its wallet.â¦
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Shares of software maker McAfee Inc  MFE.N. were on the rise in extended trading on Thursday after  it reported third-quarter financial news, and raised its  revenue projection for the fourth quarter.
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Microsoft MSFT.O is working to   hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent   weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. MFE.N   charged in a full-page ad in Monday's Financial Times.
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McAfee is focusing on security products and support for small and midsize businesses.
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How can you and your business avoid the riskiest Web sites? A new research report by security software vendor McAfee, released Monday, indicates that you can do more than simply notice if the English seems badly translated.
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(InfoWorld) - The odds of a search engine directing you to a risky Web site are getting slimmer, but some companies are better at filtering out bad links than others, McAfee reported Monday. Google has improved over the past year, but AOL has the safest search results on the Web right now, McAfee said. The riskiest? Yahoo. Overall, a significant percentage of Web links are still risky, McAfee said. In its latest study, published Monday, about 4 percent of search results were found to be risky. A year ago, that number was five percent. McAfee's study looked at the first five pages of search results provided by AOL, Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Ask.com for about 2,300 widely used keywords. It then compared those links to its Web safety database, which records sites that are associated with things like spam, online scams, Web attacks, and risky downloads. The study took a look at both the sponsored links returned by search engines and the "organic" links that are not sponsored, and Yahoo's poor performance is due to a spike in the number of sponsored links that McAfee deemed risky. When looking at organic links alone, Yahoo actually had the best results of any of the five search engines, returning risky links just 2.7 percent of the time. The most dangerous subjects to search for are words related to digital music and tech toys, McAfee found. Searches for terms relating to these two categories return risky results nearly 20 percent of the time. Some types of these "risky" results are much more common than others. For example, 0.03 percent of search results lead to a Web site that tries to run attack code on your PC. The chance of a link that is associated with spam is much higher: 1.3 percent, according to McAfee. Improvements at Google, which provides search technology to AOL and Ask.com, have been boosting the safety of search results in general, said Mark Maxwell, senior product manager with McAfee's SiteAdvisor group. Google returned risky results 3.4 percent of the time. A year ago, it scored 5.3 percent. McAfee's top-rated search engine, AOL, gave risky links 2.9 percent of the time, an improvement over last year's 5.3 percent. Yahoo, formerly one of the safest engines evaluated by McAfee, jumped from 4.3 percent in 2006 to 5.4 percent in the latest study. Microsoft's MSN also took a step backward, jumping from 3.9 percent in 2006 to 4.2 percent in 2007. Ask.com went from 6.1 percent to 3.5 percent. Over the past year, the industry has been better at acknowledging that there is a problem with risky search results and has reduced the percentage of risky sponsored links from 8.5 percent last year to 6.9 percent in 2007, Maxwell said. "You're seeing a lot more communication and cooperation toward the goal of trying to improve the online experience."
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roundup Plus: Push-to-talk wiretaps on feds' speed list...Tellabs scales back AFC buy...Top McAfee exec to step down...IDC says external disk storage up.
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(InfoWorld) - The personal details of thousands of mostly U.S.-based PC users have been discovered stashed on a server located in France, another indication of use of the Internet to collect personal data on a vast scale. The Web page, which was live as of Monday morning, does not contain financial details of the users. But other Web pages associated with the same domain indicate the site could be connected to a group of hackers based in the Middle East known for their involvement in other Internet financial crime as well as defacing Web sites, said Chris Boyd, research manager for FaceTime Communications Inc., a security company. He posted more details on a company blog . The ISP (Internet service provider) that hosts the page has been contacted, Boyd said. The data appears to have been collected in April 2006, according to timestamps in the file, and includes the full names of people, their address and their IP address. Also included are the names of the Web sites from which the details were apparently collected. The names of those Web sites, most of which are now not active, appear to offer a freebie, with names such as www.likefreestuff.com and www.freebgift.com. The offer of a free gift is often made in exchange for data, Boyd said. There's nothing illegal about collecting data that users voluntarily submit. Likewise, the storing of personal details for marketing purposes is also not illegal. But leaving those details open on a server could violate European or U.S. data protection laws. It's not clear how that data on the French server is being used, but various hackers forums are aware it has been exposed, Boyd said. The e-mail addresses could immediately be used to send spam, while the addresses of the users could potentially be used for identity fraud. Research into the domain name hosting the data has also turned up clues that it may be connected to well-known hacking groups, he said. The server the domain is hosted on also hosts nearly 24,000 other domain names, another indication of possibly either phishing or other scam activity, Boyd said. One page on the same server contains a hacking tool that can be used for a variety of other nefarious activity, such as building custom Web pages with exploit code. The tool, called King IE Exploiter, is an application that can be used to find malicious software that can be incorporated into malicious Web pages, Boyd said. The application has been linked with Trojan horse programs aimed at stealing bank details and other malware that sends spam, he said. Interestingly, when King IE Exploiter starts running, it lists several usernames of hackers, Boyd said. "They're got quite a history for being known for all sort of elaborate scams and attacks," he said. Those attacks include a worm found two years ago that installed a fake BitTorrent client on targeted computers that distributed large video files. The users whose data is now circulating on the Internet in this incident may be less protected that other victims of large data breaches. In the U.S., some states have laws where businesses must contact those affected by a loss of data. However, user may be unaware how their data is now circulating or is used if it was collected by scammers, Boyd said. "It is quite worrying," Boyd said. "Obviously, they are quite happily gathering up all of this information."
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InfoWorld - Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee&#39;s Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) labs said Tuesday.