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30.08.2018 Size Is No Issue for Cybercriminals
Running a small or medium-size business requires a great deal of effort, and owners typically employ their IT staffs in multiple tasks. With so much on their plates, it can be easy for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to overlook another key role they need their IT staffs to fulfill—that of security officers. That’s because [...]
26.09.2018 How to Spend Your Data Protection Dollars
I was speaking last week at a panel of CISO’s when someone asked me the very reasonable question “What’s the most important thing we should do to protect our data?” – What the audience member wanted to know really was, given that he had no budget, and a state mandate impressing on him the [...]
10.10.2018 Credit Crunch Moves Cybercrooks To Go Phishing
If things aren’t bad enough, with banks and other financial institutions going belly-up and being sold off, cybercriminals have figured out that it’s a great time to go phishing. The Federal Trade Commission issued a “Consumer Alert” in the past few days. Here’s the gist of it:
The online wise-guys have calculated this is a good [...]
22.10.2018 McAfee’s Initiative to Fight Cybercrime – A Noble Cause
Today McAfee unveiled a major initiative that you will hear a lot about in the coming months- our multi-point plan to fight cybercrime.
Why is McAfee doing this? We’re doing it because it’s a noble cause that unites our entire company. There’s a lot of passion and energy around this. We realized we had a [...]
02.12.2018 Get Free Online Shopping Advice from Experts on December 4
View McAfee’s Webcast: “Shop Safe. Shop Smart: How to Shop Safely Online” and get the inside scoop on how to shop for the great deals online, safely, and with peace of mind.
In just 40 minutes, you’ll learn:
- What the cybercriminals don’t want you to know
- The tricks cybercriminals use and how to avoid them
- [...]
18.11.2018 The Impact of Recent PCI DSS Announcements
The last couple of months have seen a flurry of announcements and updates to the Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
So, what is the impact of these changes and announcements?
Certainly, it appears that PCI is going to be at the forefront of the minds of retailers and is not going to lessen in importance [...]
04.12.2018 Virtualization Security — Cut Costs, Not Corners
As economic conditions worsen, and companies seek new ways to cut costs, technologies like virtualization become more attractive. Virtualization can reduce costs in multiple ways, through hardware consolidation, power reduction, decreased space and cooling requirements and reduced IT staff time. However, when considering a move to virtualization — especially when the move is accelerated to [...]
09.12.2018 Virtual Criminology
As part of McAfee’s ongoing efforts to fight cybercrime, we’ve issued a report that looks at how the global recession is affecting cybercriminal activity worldwide. This is the fourth edition of our Virtual Criminology report and the first edition since the downturn.
Cybercriminals are exploiting the global recession by luring in susceptible victims through the promise [...]
17.01.2018 Phishers Hit New Low, Target People with Disabilities
A couple of days ago, I received an email from “THE POWERBALL LOTTERY” informing me that I had won $1.5 million U.S. dollars. This is like the fifteenth or sixteenth time that I’ve won a lottery that I didn’t enter. Holy cow! Am I lucky, or what?!
“Dear Winner,
The United States Powerball Deaf Lottery wishes to [...]
09.02.2018 Spam, still with us after all these years
Roughly every four to six months for the past five years someone has gone out on a limb to declare to the world that spam is dead, or at least it will be dead soon. The cure? Some new technology that returns a binary decision on ham or spam: our technological enlightenment leading us out [...]
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