McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime

It is important to address the root cause of security issues.  This new program by McAfee targets cyber-criminals and will hopefully improve Internet safety.

McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/corporate/fight_cybercrime/index.html

Focus 2008 - McAfee Security Conference
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/10/27/souvenir-of-las-vegas/

QUOTE: Last week, along with 1,200 attendees from 47 countries, I was in Las Vegas at the FOCUS’08 McAfee Security Conference. On Tuesday, after the welcome session in which McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt announced, among others, the McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime,

I chose to hear my colleagues Toralv Dirro and Pedro Bueno present the state of cybercrime around the globe. In this session, the participants learned the actual methods used by cybercriminals: identity theft, phishing, password-stealing Trojans, virtual money laundering, and botnets.