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McAfee outlines DLP integration strategy with Reconnex
Aug. 01, 2008
With McAfee buying data-loss-prevention vendor Reconnex for $46 million in cash, the question now is how will McAfee move forward in the future to bring the Reconnex product suite into its portfolio, especially with the ...

McAfee to buy data protection vendor Reconnex
Jul. 31, 2008
Looking to expand its range of data protection products, McAfee said Thursday that it will acquire Reconnex, a maker of data protection appliances and software.

Airlines warn customers of infected ticket invoices
Jul. 28, 2008
Several airlines, including Delta and Northwest, have warned customers that bogus e-mails posing as ticket invoices contain malware and urged them to immediately delete the messages.

McAfee looks to tackle Gigabit Ethernet security
Apr. 23, 2008
McAfee is to tackle the problems of bottlenecks within organizations that have adopted Gigabit Ethernet. The company has introduced the McAfee M-8000 Network Security Platform to cope with the challenges thrown up by ...

DNS flaw info leaked; SMBs underestimate cybercriminal threat
Jul. 23, 2008
A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System and a McAfee survey says SMBs underestimate the value of their data to cybercriminals.

Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
Jul. 01, 2008
The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail spam that came to them, chronicling the ...

Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
Jun. 11, 2008
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.

McAfee extends enterprise antivirus line
Jun. 09, 2008
McAfee lays out a broad strategy to extend its VirusScan Enterprise product line to cover the separate areas of offline virtual images, SAP's NetWeaver and storage.

Hong Kong, China Web domains cited as "most dangerous"
Jun. 04, 2008
Hong Kong and China are the "most dangerous" places to surf the Web based on country domain, according to McAfee's annual assessment of the riskiest and safest places in cyberspace.

Gemalto, McAfee introduce simple two-factor authentication
May. 14, 2008
Gemalto and McAfee announced a new integrated solution that enables PC and laptop users secure and convenient access to fully encrypted disks through strong, secure, hardware-based, two factor authentication.

McAfee, Yahoo team on Web security
May. 07, 2008
McAfee and Yahoo today announced a partnership on Web security in which Yahoo's search engine is making freely available to users the warnings about unwanted or malicious code on Web sites as determined through McAfee's ...

Yahoo uses McAfee SiteAdvisor to filter evil Web sites
May. 06, 2008
Starting Tuesday, there will be a few less Web sites popping up in Yahoo searches.

Ethical hacking certification offered by McAfee
Apr. 23, 2008
A division of McAfee is teaching IT professionals how to think like hackers and attack their own networks in a new course that lets network managers earn a popular certification for ethical hacking.

McAfee claims world's fastest network security suite
Apr. 23, 2008
McAfee announced McAfee Total Protection for Network, a new suite designed to end the "appliance and product fatigue" associated with deploying, maintaining and managing multiple security solutions.

Chinese blogs detail zero-day flaw in Microsoft Works
Apr. 18, 2008
Chinese-language blogs are detailing a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Works, the company's lower-end office productivity suite, according to security vendor McAfee.

Security vendors rally around NAP
Feb. 28, 2008
Security vendors are clamoring to announce their products' compatibility with Microsoft's network access protection, a key security feature of Windows Server 2008.

'Out of office' messages turned into spam relays
Feb. 26, 2008
Spammers have found a new trick that gets around many current antispam filters: abusing the "out of the office" auto-respond feature found in legitimate Webmail services.

McAfee: Virus writers going local
Feb. 21, 2008
The program is nasty. It deletes pictures and movies from your hard drive and then it teases you: "Even though Mr. Kaneko was found guilty, you are still using Winny. I really hate such people," taunts an animated woman ...

McAfee gives encryption technology a new look
Jan. 24, 2008
McAfee releases endpoint protection package, integrating the SafeBoot encryption software it acquired last year with its policy management product.

Redman leaves EMC to join McAfee as Asia Pacific president
Jan. 17, 2008
Former EMC executive Steve Redman has joined McAfee as president for the Asia Pacific region.

Brocade's Reyes gets 21 months in backdating case
Jan. 17, 2008
Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a US$15 million fine for fraud related to backdating of the storage networking company's stock options.

Hacked MySpace page serves up fake Windows update
Jan. 12, 2008
There's now one more reason to be security-conscious while using MySpace.com: fake Microsoft updates.

Spammers hijack Microsoft site to push pill popping
Jan. 09, 2008
Spammers have found another great place to hide spam URLs in plain sight - on Microsoft's Live SkyDrive file sharing service.

McAfee warns over open source use
Jan. 08, 2008
McAfee has warned investors that the "ambiguous" nature of open source licensing could turn into a business threat.

Data loss start-ups sell out
Jan. 07, 2008
The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager's head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of startups, then even more quickly ...

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