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Six Hundred Million Reasons to Celebrate: No More Ransom Turns FOUR!!
Happy Birthday! Today we mark the fourth anniversary of the NoMoreRansom initiative with over 4.2 million visitors, from 188 countries, stopping an estimated $632 million in ransom demands from ending up in criminals’ pockets. It would be fair to say that the initiative, which started in a small meeting room ...
Women in Sales Part 1: Opportunities for Women Across Cybersecurity Sales
Collaborative, inclusive teams are what redefine cybersecurity solutions for every aspect of our connected world. At McAfee, women are making a significant impact in cybersecurity, including all aspects of sales. Executive vice president of global sales and marketing, Lynne Doherty, shares her perspective on the importance of inclusion and leads us into the start of our ...
Hunting for Blues – the WSL Plan 9 Protocol BSOD
Windows Subsystem for Linux Plan 9 Protocol Research Overview This is the final blog in the McAfee research series trilogy on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) implementation – see The Twin Journey (part 1) and Knock, Knock–Who’s There (part 2). The previous research discussed file evasion attacks when the ...
McAfee COVID-19 Report Reveals Pandemic Threat Evolution
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee® Labs COVID-19 Threats Report, July 2020. In this “Special Edition” threat report, we delve deep into the COVID-19 related attacks observed by our McAfee Advanced Threats Research and McAfee Labs teams in the first quarter of 2020 and the early ...
How to Adopt a Work-from-Home Mindset
Navigating the past month through the pandemic has yielded changes in every aspect of our daily lives. Because of COVID-19, many companies have suddenly moved to full remote work. My husband and I received news about this and school closings while our family was on spring break. As you guessed, ...
Best Practices for Adapting to a Remote Work Lifestyle
As our world continues to evolve, we have been forced to adapt accordingly. Navigating change can be difficult for many, so here are useful tips McAfee team members have been using to improve productivity, stay healthy and help customers stay digitally secure during the pandemic. Productivity Hacks Applying simple hacks to your ...
How McAfee Makes an Impact: 2019 CSR Report Launch
At McAfee, we defend the world from cyber threats. We live our values daily. But most importantly, we recognize the power of inclusion and diversity in helping to create a better world inside and outside of McAfee. Recently, we launched our 2019 corporate social responsibility report—our Impact Report. Last year, ...
Ripple20 Vulnerability Mitigation Best Practices
On June 16th, the Department of Homeland Security and CISA ICS-CERT issued a critical security advisory warning covering multiple newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting Internet-connected devices manufactured by multiple vendors. This set of 19 vulnerabilities in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck has been dubbed “Ripple20” by researchers from JSOF. A networking ...
ST20: Quantum Computing with Steve Grobman & Jon King
McAfee’s Chief Technology Officer Steve Grobman and Fellow Jon King discuss quantum computing and potential impacts to security as this technology continues to develop.
My Adventures Hacking the iParcelBox
In 2019, McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) disclosed a vulnerability in a product called BoxLock. Sometime after this, the CEO of iParcelBox, a U.K. company, reached out to us and offered to send a few of their products to test. While this isn’t the typical M.O. for our research we ...
