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Welcome to ‘Security 101’

21

Sep

2011

When I started working at McAfee, I noticed that many of the terms commonly used here were completely unknown to me. Fortunately I had no problems understanding them, but I’m sure that more than one person has read a McAfee security update and thought “What does this mean?” This question is more likely when a […]

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Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program pays out $40,000 in less than a Month

31

Aug

2011

It has only been 21 days since the Facebook Bug Bounty Program was announced and yet the company has already paid a total of $40,000 to bounty hunters. The program’s aim is to strengthen Facebook’s defense against attacks by fixing bugs within the system. Their strategy is to entice security researchers with the promise of […]

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The truth behind the Shady RAT

05

Aug

2011

McAfee published an interesting report yesterday about what they called Operation Shady RAT, focusing on a series of what some may call “advance persistent threat” attacks. The attacks were dubbed in some quarters as “one of the largest series of cyber attacks ever.” While quite a bit of data was presented regarding the potential scale […]

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