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McAfee Survey: Secret Life of Teens
By David Marcus at 22 June, 2010, 4:56 am
Today McAfee released the results from our survey “Secret Life of Teens,” which provides a detailed snapshot of online teen behavior. It reveals that 85 percent of teens go online somewhere other than at home and under the supervision of their parents, nearly a third (32 percent) of teens say they don’t tell their parents [...]
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Loading ...Twitter Meets Malware, Cybercriminals, and Gaza Situation
By David Marcus at 3 June, 2010, 5:56 am
We have discussed previously that malware writers and cybercriminals read the same news that the rest of us do. They use the same tools as we do and go to the same sites we go to as well. Over the last several years we have seen cybercriminals and malware writers consistently use high-impact news events [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Message to Google: Aurora NOT a Technology or OS Issue
By David Marcus at 1 June, 2010, 11:38 am
The news that Google is supposedly dropping Microsoft Windows is spreading like wildfire all over the Internet today. Without getting into any “which OS is better or more secure” holy war, let’s review some facts to see if this “decision” has any basis in reality. (I caution readers to remember this is not confirmed, even [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Suffers ‘Password Reset’ Scam
By David Marcus at 17 March, 2010, 4:09 pm
Today has been quite a busy day for scammers. We at McAfee Labs have been tracking a global scam/spam run that targets Facebook users. The lure used in the run is a familiar one:
Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support.
The email looks like the following:
The activity on this particular scam run has been global from the [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Q2 Threats Report Released–It’s All About Botnets and Spam
By David Marcus at 28 July, 2009, 9:52 pm
Today we released our Q2 Threats Report. Some old trends have continued. Some new trends and threats have been established, and some old “friends” have even outdone themselves. Spam volumes have increased 141 percent since March, continuing the longest ever streak of increasing spam volumes. We also highlight the dramatic expansion of botnets and the [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Malware Is Their Business…and Business Is Good!
By David Marcus at 22 July, 2009, 10:05 am
I cribbed the title from Megadeth–I admit it. However, when looking at this year’s growth in malware it seems disturbingly appropriate. Global economic downturn or not, malware production continues at a record-setting pace because this is how many cybercriminals make their money. (Malware long ago stopped being about fun and bragging.)
We at Avert Labs have [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...July Spam Report Appears
By David Marcus at 6 July, 2009, 7:50 am
Today McAfee released its July 2009 Spam Report, which reveals the Top 15 spam subject lines by domain, among other highlights. So what was the one subject line that was most popular in six continents this quarter? Viagra.
For the .COM domain, “hi” and “hello” hit the most in-boxes, while Viagra and “Salute, man!” subject lines [...]
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