Phishing Scam Targets Walmart.com Online Customers
Late last week, Walmart alerted the public to an email-based scam that used the company’s name (misspelled as “Wallmart”) to illegally gather information about users. The email sported the title “Thanks for your Walmart.com order,” and after confused users clicked on links within the emails, their Walmart accounts were charged. ...
Riddle: What’s the One Password You’ll NEVER Forget?
Last week during his keynote speech at the Interop IT conference, PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett pointed to a slide depicting a tombstone for passwords with the dates 1961-2013. According to Barrett, while passwords are still required for so many applications and services, they have simply outlived their ...
The Internet and Today’s Youth: Protecting our Future
May has been another very busy month packed with events and plenty of travel! I spent a few days with some of our best sales people at the McAfee President’s Club in Venice and Croatia, followed by a short stop at the McAfee Executive Summit in Frankfurt where I had ...
State of Online Commerce 2013: Word Clouds
Online commerce is having a greater impact on our lives as more and more businesses take advantage of these new sales channels, from e-tail to mobile commerce, to creating stand-alone mobile apps. With this in mind, we pinpointed four key topics impacting the eCommerce industry today, and created word ...
20 Questions to Ask Your Cloud Provider
As soon as you contract with a cloud provider, you should be concerned not only with your IT security but the provider’s as well. If you’re a small or medium-sized business you may assume the provider’s security is superior to your own, and you might be right, but make sure ...
