McAfee pays $51m for Hacker Safe
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Goes mad for certifying Security firm McAfee has bought ScanAlert - the company behind the "HACKER SAFE" kitemark used to certify ecommerce websites.â¦
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Internet security may be priceless, but people who want a safer web browser with their older versions of Windows will pay $239. Until last month, the software giant&#39;s security-challenged Internet
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Antivirus vendor may pay $13 billion for the storage software company.
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Can't pay, will only pay $50K Two alleged spyware operations have settled lawsuits brought by the US Federal Trade Commission.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - An online criminal has offered to sell software that exploits an unpatched bug in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system, according to security vendor Trend Micro Inc. The code was offered for sale in an underground hacker discussion forum last month, said Raimund Genes, Trend Micro's chief technology officer. The asking price? US$50,000. Genes didn't know if the code actually worked as advertised, or whether it was even purchased, but he said that it would have been difficult for the seller to have been involved with this particular forum without providing at least one reliable sample. "I think that definitely he had something," Genes said. "The question is whether somebody paid for this." If the offer is legitimate it would be the first serious bug reported in Vista since it was released to business customers at the end of November. The consumer version of Vista is set to ship next month. Microsoft is investigating Trend's claims but has "not been contacted directly by any parties about this vulnerability report, nor are we directly involved in the forums in which vulnerabilities are reportedly traded," the company said in a statement. If someone did pay for the code -- called a "zero-day" exploit -- it was purchased at a premium price. According to Genes, a similar exploit for Internet Explorer would command about $5,000. "This was way more," he said. "Maybe the person said, 'This is the first working exploit on Vista, so I can charge a premium.'" Because Vista is not as widely adopted as Microsoft's XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems, criminals would have fewer potential victims to attack with the code. "To be honest [the price for a Vista zero day] should probably be lower," said Joe Telafici, vice president of Avert operations with McAfee Inc. "There's nobody to infect with it." There have been far fewer vulnerability disclosures in the weeks up to Vista's commercial release than there were when XP was introduced, Telafici said. That's partially due to the expansion of the underground marketplace for software bugs, he said. While most hackers were motivated by the fame and glory just a few years ago, they growth of cybercrime has introduced a new breed of more stealthy professionals, security experts say. Criminals who plan to use Vista vulnerabilities "are going to be holding them close to their chest until they are ready to release them," Telafici said. "I wouldn't be amazed if we saw vulnerabilities popping up over the next year that were found now."
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Malicious-toolbar distributor pays more than $2 million in federal settlement.
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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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A Briton who headed a net piracy gang is jailed in the US for 51 months.
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Computer hackers are keeping up with the times and are putting an increasingly technology-dependent world at risk, the chairman of leading US-based IT security firm McAfee said.
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America Online Inc is bundling antivirus software from McAfee Inc into version 9.0 Security Edition of its online service, providing blanket virus blocking coverage for its approximately 23 million paying subscribers.
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The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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The former top lawyer of McAfee Inc. was charged with stock options tampering that muddied the finances of the computer security software maker.
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(InfoWorld) - The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Hew Raymond Griffiths, 44, was extradited to the U.S. from Australia in February, and in April, he pleaded guilty to two copyright-related charges in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. Griffiths, a British national, was the long-time leader of the DrinkOrDie software piracy network and an elder in the underground Internet piracy community, known as the warez scene, the DOJ said. He faced a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a US$500,000 fine for the charges. Griffiths "became one of the most notorious leaders of the underground Internet piracy community by orchestrating the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyrighted material," Alice Fisher, assistant attorney general at the DOJ, said in a statement. Griffiths had fought extradition for almost three years, and he was held in an Australian detention center during that time. His extradition was one of the first for a copyright offense, the DOJ said in a press release. "Whether committed with a gun or a keyboard -- theft is theft," U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement. "And, for those inclined to steal Intellectual Property here, or from half-way around the world, they are on notice that we can and will reach them." DrinkOrDie was founded in Russia in 1993 and expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. The group was dismantled by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December 2001, with more than 70 raids conducted in the U.S. and five other countries, the U.K., Finland, Norway, Sweden and Australia. The operation targeting DrinkOrDie has resulted in more than 30 felony convictions in the U.S. and 11 convictions elsewhere, the DOJ said. The DOJ estimated that DrinkOrDie was responsible for the reproduction and distribution of more than $50 million worth of pirated software, movies, games and music. In a 1999 interview, Griffiths said he ran DrinkOrDie's day-to-day operations and controlled access to more than 20 top warez servers worldwide. He said then he would never be caught. DrinkOrDie specialized in cracking software codes and distributing the cracked versions over the Internet. The group distributed software from large companies such as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp., as well as smaller software vendors, the DOJ said. The group used encryption and other security measures to hide their activities from police.
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Security compliance play McAfee has agreed to buy a majority stake in security policy compliance firm Citadel Security in a deal valued at $60m. The deal is designed to bolster McAfee's capabilities in the area of policy enforcement and vulnerability remediation.â¦
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Five subsidiaries of Bank of America agree settlements with the US market watchdog totalling $515m for fraudulent fund trading.
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Despite vendor claims to the contrary, security scanners and source-code analysis tools are generally speaking not up to the job of protecting your company's network, says one McAfee VP.
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McAfee announces an add-on to its enterprise anti-virus software that boosts spyware protection for businesses. By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News.