Rumors of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death were rampant on the news and Internet over the past month, and last Tuesday, the Venezuelan Vice President confirmed that Chavez died after a two year battle with cancer. Chavez’s death has…
Accepting mobile payments is quickly becoming an important element of any mobile commerce strategy, and many merchants are moving to adopt it. However, like so many new technologies, security is still an issue when it comes to the mobile payments space. Whether it’s mobile POS, NFC, or other digital currencies, navigating the compliance and usability Read more…
The Problem Cybercriminals are targeting organizations successfully in spite of traditional security measures as noted recently by the NY Times and a front page article in the Wall Street Journal on cyber espionage. This issue is driven by the cybercriminal gangs’ ability to compromise vulnerable systems using sophisticated reconnaissance and penetration tactics. So, how do Read more…
We already know that mobile malware is growing at a fantastic rate, but we now see a new trend that concerns us: specific regions targeted by mobile threats. Just last week McAfee Labs blogged about a new malware threat targeting phone owners in South Korea. Today we have identified another new strain of Android Trojan Read more…
Internetbedrohungen sind für Menschen, die das Internet für die unterschiedlichsten Aktivitäten nutzen, mittlerweile zum Alltag geworden. Anstatt sich aber nur Sorgen zu machen ohne zu handeln und wichtige Daten aufs Spiel zu setzen, gib…
Des menaces en ligne font partie du quotidien pour ceux qui utilisent régulièrement l’internet pour un grand nombre de choses. Pourtant, au lieu de se faire attaquer par ces menaces ou de mettre en danger des données importan…
Online threats have become a fact of life for people who regularly use the internet. However, rather than worrying about it or waiting for potentially important details to be compromised, there a number of key points which you can consider to counter a…
The word botnet or bot is short for robot network. A botnet is a group of Internet-connected personal computers that have been infected by a malicious application (malware) that allows a hacker to control the infected computers or mobile devices without the knowledge of the device owners. When malware is launched on your computer or Read more…
Contributor: Avdhoot Patil
Phishers have already made their mark in Southeast Asia by targeting Indonesians. For the past couple of years, celebrities have been their key interest in the region. Aura Kasih and Ahmad Dhani are good examples. In March 20…
For four days, the streets of Barcelona were flooded with mobile enthusiasts from every corner of the globe, looking to see what ground-breaking announcements would be coming out of Mobile World Congress 2013 (MWC). Held from February 25th to February 28th, more than 72,000 attendees from 200 countries passed through the MWC entrance doors to Read more…