SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 16, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the McAfee Cloud Secure program, a program for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to add additional security to their cloud deployments. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a pioneer in cloud computing and SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS provider are expected be amongst the first providers to leverage
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 15, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) will webcast its conference call to discuss first quarter 2010 earnings results on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. All interested parties are invited to listen to McAfee’s executive management team present earnings results, business highlights, and guidance. To access the conference
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McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on the order of $300 million they also estimated. Rogues are thieving malicious programs that pretend to be legitimate anti-malcode products. They are real money makers for
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 romped to victory in comparative testing conducted by the respected Polish IT magazine PC Format. Detailed results of all the security suites tested were announced in issue no. 4/2010 of the magazine. The magazine’s experts put 10 of the
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Kaspersky Lab warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server. During the past two weeks, the Kaspersky Lab research team has observed the Koobface live
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, warns of a surge in Koobface, the highly prolific worm infecting social networking sites. The malicious program targets sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses compromised legitimate websites as proxies for its main command and control server. During the past 2 weeks, the Kaspersky
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Introduction The RSA Conferences are among of the most important annual security conferences. This year’s US conference was held in San Francisco 1 – 5 March. One of the speakers was Microsoft’s Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing. His speech covered several interesting topics, of which we will discuss one: the ability, usefulness and implications of treating infected computers
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In its security bulletin summary for March 2010 Microsoft has published no updates for critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications, however two important updates were published. A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010. From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft’s Security
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Microsoft has issued a security advisory about a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft this vulnerability could allow remote code execution, and it is being actively exploited in targeted attacks. Version 8 of Internet Explorer is not affected by this vulnerability. Organizations and individuals able to upgrade to version 8 should therefore perform such
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Malicious PDF files abuse a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat which was recently fixed by Adobe Tettnang, 9 March 2010 – Mid February Adobe released new versions of Reader and Acrobat. Avira now detected specially prepared PDF files which abuse the vulnerabilities which are fixed within the new release. Upon opening the malicious PDF
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