Quizzes and surveys bring a big chunk of revenue cyber-crooks make on the account of unwary computer users. For about one year, rogue Facebook™ apps have helped them direct large amounts of traffic to survey websites, but they have also started to exploit instant messaging service users. Today we bring under the scope a spam
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, released today a detailed infographic which revealed the dynamics of the Facebook scam landscape. Based on the statistics provided by Bitdefender safego, a free Bitdefender tool designed to protect social network accounts from privacy risks, e-threats and spam, the infographic details the types of messages used
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BitDefender, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, offers evidence supporting the close connection between the Twitter scam reported by the Sophos naked security blog and a similar Facebook scam. The BitDefender online threats team traced one of the URLs used to spread the “#howlong” Twitter attack and, based on the advanced statistics provided by bit.ly., managed
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Malware that targets social networks such as Facebook is platform-independent and is as widely spread as malware that targets PCs, warned BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions. According to goo.gl statistics, one of the URLs used for the propagation of a recent massive Facebook scam – promising to show users a
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 10, 2011 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) will webcast its conference call to discuss fourth quarter and year end 2010 earnings results on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. To access the conference call, please dial 1-800-809-7467 (United States toll-free) or 1-706-679-4671 (international) at least 15 minutes early. The
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 30, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), the world’s largest dedicated security company, today announced its 2011 retail editions of McAfee Total Protection™, McAfee® Internet Security and McAfee® AntiVirus Plus software will begin to roll out in retail stores globally. McAfee retail 2011 products feature significant product enhancements, many of which were
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29, 2010 – McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the worldwide availability of McAfee® SaaS Web Protection. The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Web security solution combines the robust enterprise-grade reporting capabilities and features from McAfee solutions with the massively scalable, multi-tenant platform architecture that powered the MX Logic solution. The new cloud-based service
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 18, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the release of McAfee® Web Gateway version 7 in response to the overwhelming increase in Web-borne malware and botnets. As the reliance on Web 2.0 applications increases, so does the risk to organizations that need flexible access to “Web 2.0 ready” security. The
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 12, 2010 – The ticker in the first graph should read (NYSE:MFE) (sted (NYSE:MFC)). The corrected release reads: MCAFEE, INC. ALIGNS BUSINESS TO RESPOND TO EVOLVING CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS Businesses Looking for Strategic Security Providers to Offer End-to-End Protection with Multiple Delivery Options McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) has announced a new alignment of
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