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Macro Malware Adds Tricks, Uses MaxMind to Avoid Detection
Macro malware continues to evolve and use new tricks to evade detection. This threat is responsible for downloading malicious Trojans...
EMEA Channel Partner Summit: The highlights
This blog was written by David Small. As we look ahead to our annual FOCUS Security conference, a three day...
The Channel Transformation to Ascend
This blog was written by Richard Steranka. In our continued quest to become our customers’ #1 security vendor and our...
Oversharing – Don’t Blame It All On The Kids!
No matter which way you interpret the plethora of research, it is very clear – our teens are oversharing. The...
Mobile Pop-Ups, Digital Spam with a Side of Dangerous
Technology has become the personal assistant of our dreams, but also the crutch for our brains that we’ve grown increasingly...
Study: Want an Epic Family Vacation this Year? Unplug!
Everyone talks about it but, c’mon, who really completely unplugs from tech completely on vacation? According to a recent study...
Setting the Bar for Marketing Innovation – Evolving our Marketing Strategy in the Security Technology Industry
Every year we recognize partners for achieving excellence in a variety of categories. Last month at our Americas Partner Summit,...
What It Takes for Security in the Internet of Things
The next time you buy a car, chances are, it’ll be connected to your phone. Maybe your next refrigerator, thermostat,...
June #SecChat Recap: Findings from the 2016 Verizon DBIR
This year’s highly anticipated Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (Verizon DBIR) analyzed cybersecurity findings from 100,000 incidents and 2,260...
Going The Extra Mile: Pandora, Facebook, and Netflix Ask Users to Reset Passwords
It’s a good sign when businesses take the initiative to protect consumers’ online safety. Not only does it allow customers...
The Decluttering Bug
I have a confession to make – I think I have become addicted to decluttering. Perhaps it is the by-product...
Business Email Compromise Hurts Your Organization
As many workers do today, you probably get emails from your boss asking you to perform various tasks. You may...
Update Your Toaster: How IoT Devices Can Be Conscripted into Botnets
Charles Strite, according to Lemelson-MIT, first introduced the modern toaster in 1926. It was, and remains to this day, a...
Trojanized Pokémon GO Android App Found in the Wild
Pokémon GO is a new mobile game that allows fans to “catch” Pokemons in the real world using augmented reality...
What Could (Pokémon) Go Wrong?
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. If you’re like me, your Facebook feed (and Twitter, Instagram, Vine, etc) has...
The Facebook Cull and Why You Should Embrace It!
So, how many friends do you have on Facebook? Do you really know them or were they just a passing...
Patch Now: Simple Office ‘Protected View’ Bypass Could Have Big Impact
Protected View is a security feature of Microsoft Office. According to research from MWR Labs, Protected View mode is a strong...
My Favourite Mothering Apps
I honestly don’t know where I would be without my favourite collection of apps. With four kids, too many pets,...
Keeping Your Mobile Device (and Your Personal Life) Safe with IoT
Life is made up of the little things. There are ‘fuzzy feeling’ little things; like when the nice lady in...
Pokémon Go: How Families Can Stay Safe (and Still Catch ‘Em All)
Thanks to the new augmented reality game Pokémon Go, app fans across the globe are enjoying countless hours of fun...
Webcam Blackmail: How Cybercriminals Breathe Life into Laptops
Stories of inanimate objects coming to life are familiar to us. Movies such as Toy Story show the idea’s cultural...
Urgent! Update Your Apple Devices Now
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. A number of serious vulnerabilities have been recently reported impacting OS X, iOS,...
Phishing Attacks Employ Old but Effective Password Stealer
A few months ago we received a sample from a customer that turned out to be a password stealer (PWS). One...
McAfee Teams With Industry, Law Enforcement to Thwart ‘Shade’ Ransomware
McAfee, Europol, Kaspersky Lab, and Dutch police have taken down the Shade ransomware botnet and captured encryption keys to unlock...
Improve Your Google Account Privacy
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. I’ve had a number of questions come in lately via email, social media...
Beware Cloned Facebook Profiles
If you have had a Facebook friend request from a friend that you are sure you already have then –...
No More Ransom: A New Initiative to Battle Ransomware
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. Ransomware has seen a huge increase over the past couple of years. According...