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Darkshell DDOS Botnet Evolves With Variants

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Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was www.mcafee.com/activate  first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new  www.mcafee.com/activate download samples that turned www.mcafee/activate out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations www.mcafee.com/activate product key in network traffic and control commands mcafee.com/activate product key. The Darkshell bot follows a fairly www.mcafee.com/activate product key standard installation process by copying itself into the System32 directory with a name that appears to be www.mcafee.com/activate legitimate, for example, C:\WINDOWS\system32\WinHe803.exe. It then sends the  mcafee.com/activate product key system information of the infected machine to its control server in encrypted format. Once the control server receives the information, it responds www.mcafee.com/activate download with the victim’s www.mcafee/activate add

Myth: Apple Products Don’t Get Viruses

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Have you ever bitten into an apple and found a worm? I have, and it’s yummy! Anyway, how many times have you heard www.mcafee.com/activate , or even said, “I won’t get that computer virus because I have a Mac”?  While Mac users tend to feel www.mcafee/activate somewhat mcafee.com/activate product key insulated   www.mcafee.com/activate download  from viruses, it’s time for anyone who owns an Apple computer, iPhone, iPad, or other Apple www.mcafee.com/activate download  device to listen up www.mcafee.com/activate product key . The growing popularity of Apple products has inspired cybercriminals to create viruses that will harm Macs. Until now, Macs have been immune to these threats, but McAfee Labs is seeing the very first wave  www.mcafee.com/activate of fake programs targeted at Mac users. In other words  www.mcafee.com/activate download , there are an increased number of programs known as “scareware,” which claim to protect users mcafee.com/activate product www.mcafee.com/activate d

Social Networking Security Awareness

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One in five online consumers has been a victim of cyber crime in the past two years. Social networking is  www.mcafee.com/activate product key a direct link to the problem. While social networks allow you to keep in touch with family and friends, there are issues to be www.mcafee/activate concerned about.Most concerns revolve around online reputation management, identity theft, or physical security issues. Social networking www.mcafee.com/activate creates a risk of posting  mcafee.com/activate product key content that will be damaging to yourself, your profile being hacked or your credentials being compromised, or inviting burglars to  www.mcafee.com/activate download your home by publicizing your whereabouts. Facebook faces a security challenge that few companies, or even governments, have ever faced: protecting more mcafee.com/activate product key than 500 million users www.mcafee/activate of a service that is under constant attack. I’m a huge proponent of “personal responsibility,”

Security Connected Framework McAfee

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Recently Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee’s VP of Threat Research, published a blog about Operation Shady RAT. In the blog and corresponding  mcafee.com/activate product key whitepaper  he details an investigation of targeted intrusions into www.mcafee.com/activate over 70 global companies www.mcafee/activate, governments, and non-profit organizations over the last five years that appear to be sourced from a single actor or group www.mcafee.com/activate product key. The targeted attacks used a combination of known attack components such as remote www.mcafee.com/activate download access tools or RATS and spearphishing. Since the  www.mcafee.com/activate download release of this information www.mcafee.com/activate, there have been questions regarding mitigation techniques for these types of attacks; we’ll look at some now www.mcafee.com/activate product key mcafee.com/activate product key. It’s important to note that there is no single product that can be plugged in that will stop spearphishin

Understanding How Bitcoin Mining Poses Security Risks

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The value of Bitcoin has had its ups and downs over the past several years, but continues to attract interest Microsoft Customer Service in the midst of a chaotic market Support.Microsoft.Com/Help . The rapid growth of this alternate currency has Microsoft Support Phone Number dominated headlines and ignited a cryptocurrency boom that left consumers everywhere wondering how to get a slice of  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  the Bitcoin pie. For those that want to join the craze without trading traditional currencies like  Microsoft Support Phone Number U.S. dollars, a process called “Bitcoin mining” appears to be a great way to get involved. However, Bitcoin mining introduces a number of security risks. What is Bitcoin mining? Mining for Bitcoin is like mining for gold Support.Microsoft.Com/Help—you put in the work and you get your  Microsoft Support Phone Number reward. But instead Microsoft Support Phone Number of back-breaking labor, you earn the currency with your time and compu

The Security Implications of Telecoms McAfee

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 The exchange of information  www.mcafee.com/activate product key  by electronic means, helps keep the world connected. You can thank modern telecom companies (think AT&T, Verizon, etc.) for that, as they’ve helped form economies and entire business infrastructures. From email and messaging to phone calls and www.mcafee/activate video calls, telecoms have become an mcafee.com/activate product key intrinsic  part of our lives, allowing users to interact no matter where they are, which is important now more than ever.Because  Microsoft Support Phone Number their networks are so extensive, telecoms www.mcafee.com/activate are a big target for hackers hoping www.mcafee.com/activate download to gain access to their business nd wide customer base. Therefore, it’s important both businesses and consumers become aware of the potential threats to telecoms. Let’s take a look. The Challenges Faced by Telecoms While advancements in technology help improve many facets of our everyday lives, the

Discuss about risk of Geo Location

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Using your mobile’s built-in global positioning system (GPS) functionality allows location-based services (or geo-location) to locate  www.mcafee.com/activate and publish information about your whereabouts mcafee.com/activate product key. Applications like Foursquare, Facebook and Yelp allow you to “check in” at places using your mobile phone, and then share your location with www.mcafee/activate friends or on social networks www.mcafee.com/activate product key . The application knows www.mcafee.com/activate download where you are because it taps into your phone’s GPS longitude and latitude data. It can actually be a mcafee.com/activate product key nifty tool and a smart use of available technologies, like when you are trying to find directions to a place: the map www.mcafee/activate begins your directions where  www.mcafee.com/activate download you are, since it knows your location www.mcafee.com/activate. Some businesses even provide discounts or freebies as a reward for checking in

The Internet and Today’s Youth: Protecting our Future

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May has been another very busy month packed with events and plenty of travel! I spent a few days with some of our  www.mcafee.com/activate best sales people at the McAfee President’s Club in Venice mcafee.com/activate product key and Croatia, followed by a short stop at thewhere I had the pleasure of catching  www.mcafee.com/activate download up with some of our German customers following my  www.mcafee/activate presentation to the attendees. There was no stopping there – the day after the Executive Summit I travelled straight www.mcafee.com/activate product key back to Amsterdam for the McAfee Labs day at our Executive Briefing Centre. It was here that some of our EMEA journalists learned of the launch of McAfee’s vision for consumer security. The launch of this new service got me thinking about one particular demographic of consumer that is particularly vulnerable to threat: children. Today’s youth has been brought up with the advent of the internet. As a generation of ‘digital nati

Web Security Survival Guide for eCommerce business

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Ecommerce is shaping up to be a major part of the global  www.mcafee.com/activate download retail market, with Forrester predicting that U.S. online www.mcafee.com/activate retail sales alone will  With this in mind, it’s no wonder so many people hope to take advantage of these www.mcafee/activate profits by creating their www.mcafee.com/activate product key own online business. Although it’s easier than ever to establish an online store mcafee.com/activate product key, security is crucial to achieving long-term success. Aside from the legal and cosmetic processes, new eCommerce merchants must take other needed steps www.mcafee.com/activate product key www.mcafee.com/activate download to provide customers with a safe  www.mcafee/activate a nd secure site for purchasing goods mcafee.com/activate product key. Below www.mcafee.com/activate, we discuss six security related rules online retailers must follow in order to survive. Backend security basics Running a successful eCommerce busines

Android Phones Vulnerable to Loss of Data and Apps

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Recently security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar discussed a vulnerability that caused a Samsung Galaxy SIII to return to a factory reset just  www.mcafee.com/activate by visiting a special website. Mobile phones have a number of useful codes that can be typed on the dialer screen to bring up www.mcafee.com/activate product key system information (IMEI, firmware version, etc.). Usually they are used by a phone mcafee.com/activate product key technician to verify settings  www.mcafee.com/activate download on your phone. In this case www.mcafee/activate, a special code that you can type into your phone to wipe all the information off your device can also be entered by a malicious web site. Visit it with your Android phone and you end up with a factory reset. There are really two parts to the remote wipe vulnerability: one is the existence of USSD codes that can erase all data on a phone www.mcafee.com/activate; the other is the ability to enter those codes www.mcafee.com/activate download

The Connected Home – Introducing Little Red Boxes

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This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took  www.mcafee.com/activate the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the Innovation roadshow.It’s a prototype project www.mcafee/activate that my team has been working  www.mcafee.com/activate product key on for some time now, and www.mcafee.com/activate download will go some way to answer the need to  protect all the connected devices in your home.  My house is the classic connected home – I have the usual assortment of PCs and laptops that built up over the years, some relegated  www.mcafee/activate to the role of photo frame, others scattered around for occasional browsing and email use. There’s also www.mcafee.com/activate the odd real photo frame (wirelessly connected to a media server of course), and on that topic mcafee.com/activate product key, numerous and www.mcafee.com/activate product key  www.mcafee.com/activate download othe

Backup Security Best Practices

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