McAfee: Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity
Security software maker McAfee has named Jessica Biel as the most dangerous celebrity online.
The company said in its latest report that the search results for Biel are most likely to point to malicious websites.
The report said that Biel fans searching for content on her have a [...]
McAfee: SPAM is environmentally unfriendly
Security applications developer McAfee has revealed in their latest report that SPAM messages are not just nuisance they are also environmentally unfriendly.
The company said in their new report titled ‘Carbon Footprint of E-mail Spam Report’ that a single spam message results in 0.3 grams of carbon dioxide being released into [...]
McAfee launches a new unit for SaaS security offerings
Security software maker McAfee has announced that they are forming a new unit out of their SaaS security offerings.
The company said that this new unit would handle all McAfee products delivered over the Internet.
McAfee has appointed former vice president of SaaS at Hewlett-Packard Marc Olesen [...]
IE bug being exploited through Word documents
Security analysts are warning that hackers are now using MS Word files to make use of the bug in Internet Explorer web browser that was just patched by Microsoft through an emergency update.
David Marcus, the director of security research and communications for McAfee Avert Labs said in a note: [...]
Seagate, Dell and McAfee provides data encryption solutions
Seagate, Dell and McAfee are collaborating together to provide data encryption solutions to customers.
The package comes with self-encrypting hard drives, a software managing system and a personal computer that comes loaded with these.
Seagate is providing the Momentus FDE family drives. McAfee is providing enterprise-wide management. Dell is [...]
McAfee Mapping the Mal Web report released
Security software maker McAfee has released their Mapping the Mal Web report.
The report analysis and tells us the type of domain names which are riskiest to browse online.
McAfee said in this report that the most dangerous domain names are hosted at: “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information).
Info [...]
Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. to work on search safety
Internet media giant Yahoo has said that they are now working with McAfee to improve the safety of their search results.
Yahoo said that their search results would soon begin displaying red exclamation point and a warning next to links which McAfee believes are harmful for them.
Priyank [...]
Intel Anti-Theft Technology for Laptops
Microprocessor giant Intel has said that they are working on a new technology designed to prevent theft of notebooks.
They aim to start offering it by the end of the year though they did not reveal much about it.
They have named this new technology: Intel Anti-Theft Technology.
This new feature would be [...]
Trend Micro website was attacked by malicious hackers
Trend Micro has confirmed that their website was attacked by hackers who were aiming to place malicious content on it.
The company added that they took the pages down overnight Tuesday night and took corrective measures.
This attack was part of the global attack which was targeted at more than [...]
McAfee Inc. acquiring ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million
Security software maker McAfee has said that they are now acquiring ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million
This deal would further enhance their security products offering. McAfee would be paying in cash for this deal.
ScanAlert specializes in providing security services to web sites. They scan more than 75,000 customer Web [...]
