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(Credit:James Martin) In the future, you may not have to buy antivirus software for your laptops and mobile devices if Intel is able to live up to the promise of integrating technology from acquisition target McAfee, experts said on Thursday. In announcing its plans to acquire security company McAfee for $7.68 billion, Intel executives said they see security as being as critical to computing as performance and connectivity and that they plan to combine security with its hardware and expand further into the mobile market. While Intel has been pushing more and more functionality down into[....]

Intel Senior Vice President Renee J. James (Credit:Intel) Renee J. James, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel, discussed Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion in an interview with CNET on Thursday. James is responsible for delivering software products and support across for Intel’s product lines. In addition, she is responsible for the Intel worldwide developer programs as well as R&D for next-generation software. James is also chairman of two Intel subsidiaries: Wind River Systems and Havok, both of which[....]

Report shows decline in cyberbullying (Credit:McAfee / Harris Interactive) commentary The headline of the press pitch I received a few days ago read “McAfee to release shocking findings of teen’s online behavior,” but the actual data from the study, “Secret Life of Teens,” are far from shocking. McAfee’s study (PDF) is actually a reassuring portrait of how most young people are exercising reasonable caution in their use of technology. The study, conducted by Harris Interactive, included interviews with almost 1,400 10- to 17-year-olds. The survey[....]

(Credit:McAfee/Trust Digital) McAfee said on Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire Trust Digital, a provider of mobile security and management software targeting corporations. The companies did not disclose terms of the deal or how many of Trust Digital’s 30 to 40 McLean, Va.-based employees will be moving to McAfee. Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee expects to combine Trust Digital’s solution that allows corporations and organizations to manage the smartphones employees use with its antivirus and other security software and its centralized management and reporting[....]

(Credit:Adgregate Markets) McAfee is partnering with Adgregate Markets on a new service designed to keep malware out of ads that appear on Web sites, the companies plan to announce Monday. Typically, ad networks, advertisers, and publishers have to manually scan advertising content for malware. The Secure Ads service aims to automate that process for them, said Henry Wong, chief executive of Adgregate Markets. Currently, when staff at ad and publisher networks perform quality assurance on ads, “they are supposed to catch any potential malicious advertising units, but a lot slip[....]

Gizmo5's old product, acquired by Google in November. (Credit:Gizmo5) Google continues to evolve its Google Voice product, with reports it’s testing a desktop-based version inside the Googleplex. TechCrunch says that Google has been internally testing a desktop Google Voice application this week, the fruits of its acquisition of Gizmo5 last year. This would allow Google Voice users to treat their PC or Mac like a phone, bypassing the current requirement that Google Voice service be connected to a phone. It’s not clear when such an application may launch, according to[....]

Cyberattacks were recently used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam with ties to China, according to Google and McAfee. Malware that was disguised as a popular Vietnamese-language keyboard driver for Windows users was used to create a botnet, according to blog posts from Google’s Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. That botnet was then used to target blogs rallying against a bauxite mining project in Vietman, employing DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks to shut down those blogs, according to the posts. The two companies[....]

This is what the Facebook password reset scam e-mail looks like. (Credit:McAfee) If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam. McAfee warned people in a blog post on Wednesday to beware of an e-mail that appears to come from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password. The attachment contains a password stealer that can potentially access any username and password combination used on the computer, not just the login credentials for[....]

Moshe Ben Abu announced his Internet Explorer exploit on Twitter. (Credit:Twitter) An Israeli security researcher has published exploit code for an unpatched hole in Internet Explorer that Microsoft disclosed two days ago. Microsoft had warned in an advisory that a new vulnerability in IE 6 and IE 7, which could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, had been targeted in attacks. Releasing the exploit code publicly increases the chances of attacks on the zero-day hole and could pressure Microsoft to issue a patch before its next scheduled Patch Tuesday in four weeks. [....]

If you’ve ever seen a message pop up on your computer telling you that your machine has a virus and offering to fix it for a fee, be careful. You might be a victim of “scareware.” If so you will be in good company. Security firm McAfee that says that worldwide a million people are victimized by scareware daily. There are 69,000 daily cases in the United States, according to the company. McAfee Labs reports that “scareware has increased more than 600 percent in the last two years.” The company says that criminals make “upwards of $300 million[....]

SAN FRANCISCO–The type of software corporations use to house source code that criminals targeted in the recent attacks on Google and others is generally weak in security protection, McAfee researchers said on Wednesday. McAfee analyzed a commonly used software for housing intellectual property called Perforce and released its findings during a session at the RSA security conference here. The company helped in the discovery that a hole in Internet Explorer 6 was exploited in at least some of the recent attacks on U.S. firms and named the attacks “Operation Aurora” after[....]

SAN FRANCISCO–The type of software corporations use to house source code that criminals targeted in the recent attacks on Google and others is generally weak in security protection, McAfee researchers said on Wednesday. McAfee analyzed a commonly used software for housing intellectual property called Perforce and released its findings during a session at the RSA security conference here. The company helped in the discovery that a hole in Internet Explorer 6 was exploited in at least some of the recent attacks on U.S. firms and named the attacks “Operation Aurora” after[....]

“Bomb Blast.” “Jackson is still alive: proof.” “Obama cursed by Pope.” These are just a few of the subjects used by cybercriminals last year to trick people into opening malware-infected e-mails. Spam that uses the latest news headlines was just one of the hot trends last year in the world of cybercrime, according to McAfee’s “Q4 Threats Report” (PDF), released Tuesday. The latest threat assessment also noted a rise in “hacktivism,” or politically motivated cyberattacks. Though spam levels in the fourth quarter actually[....]