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Two weeks ago McAfee released their 5th issue of the McAfee Security Journal, formerly known as "Sage". In this issue it's about social engineering techniques. You can download your copy here . Related links: McAfee Avert Labs Blog
Not only the Olympic games have started, but also the malware games related to the Olympics. One of the latest is that if you receive an attachment named as: "ioc_guidelines_for_persons_accredited_at_the_xxix_olympiad.pdf" then delete this immediately...
Few days ago McAfee released a new version of their VirusScan Scan Engine. So far only for corporate versions like VSE8.0i and/or VSE8.5i . You can download it from the McAfee Enterprise download site.
Few days ago the McAfee Avert Labs received an email with a executable flash movie. The attachment was called: "RaceForTibet.exe", which eventually seems to be a keylogger program. Even a log file is being send to a provider in China. Just want...
McAfee , Inc. today announced the launch of its global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students to retirees - will surf...
Really cool video at the McAfee's Avert Labs blog site about the latest mass hack attack at phpBB web sites. See how it looks like from an end user's perspective: Mass Hack Attack . Source: McAfee Avert Labs Blog .
From: McAfee Avert Labs Blog "A Window Mobile PocketPC trojan that disables Windows Mobile application installation security has been discovered in China. WinCE/InfoJack sends the infected device’s serial number, operating system and other information...
McAfee not doing so well, Microsoft doing okay. Check out Alex Eckelberry , from Sunbelt, blog with the latest results from Andreas Marx of Av-Test.org . Links to PDF files with the results in the article.
Some McAfee customers are redirected to a non-McAfee website or receive an error or blank page when attempting to download or update McAfee software Summary: on 12/27/07, McAfee learned that a new variant of the DNSChanger Trojan has been released and...
Yesterday I received an email telling that Judi, aka "Tigg" passed away at 10:30AM EDT. Judi was a wonderful person, a very good moderator at the McAfee Support Forums , always trying to help the McAfee customers and the McAfee technicians....
A new McAfee Scan Engine is available for elective download at McAfee's Security Updates web site. The McAfee update site will be updated to the 5200 Engine on September 5, 2007. Related documents: Upcoming new elective download package and AutoUpdate...
McAfee's new CEO, David DeWalt, in his first blog, The New Guy , at McAfee's Security Insights Blog . Hope to see more of him there and maybe he'll find some time to visit the McAfee Support Forums one day...
A new service from McAfee Avert Labs as they launched their official PodCast site - AudioParasitics hosted by David Marcus and Jim Walter. One day they might talk about disclosure, the other day about zero-day trends or about new rootkit functionality...
Even though McAfee says it's Vista ready it's actually not ready too. If you look at the "System Requirements" for their 3 in 1 Protection suite then it only says: Microsoft® Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows VISTA There are customers who...
At RSA2007 McAfee was honered for their SiteAdvisor technology by the U.S. Department of Commerce with its “Recognition of Excellence in Innovation” honor. The award was presented by the Honorable Robert Cresanti, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for...
This marks the first year that Avert Labs has a direct presense at RSA. We will be running some very cool demos at the McAfee booth and answering questions about our research happenings. Some of the demos include password-stealing trojans, a botnet in...
McAfee announced that its anti-spam researchers have been tracking a new trend nicknamed "spam island-hopping," in which island-hopping spammers use the domain names of small islands as Web site links in spam campaigns to disguise themselves...
McAfee released two updates for ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot. The software affected are: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0 Patch 5 and earlier McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.1 Patch 2 and earlier An attacker would be able to remotely execute arbitrary...
McAfee released their DAT file #4800. With this the number of threads will exceed more than 200,000 threads. In September 2004 the number of threads were 100,000. In less than two years this number has doubled. The McAfee anti-virus not only detects viruses...
It probably happened quite suddenly, but I just noticed that McAfee/Avert created a blog. Yes, see for yourself: McAfee Avert Labs Blog With RSS Feed
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