Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.
The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can't be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee.
The contest is dubbed Race to Zero, ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership Tuesday under which potentially unsafe Web sites appearing in Yahoo search results will be flagged as risky.
The deal, an exclusive for Yahoo, uses McAfee SiteAdvisor technology to label a variety of potentially dangerous Web sites with red warning text and links to McAfee information ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
On Tuesday, security vendor McAfee reported that it's seen a huge spike in fake MP3 files spreading on peer-to-peer networks. Although the files have names that make them look like audio recordings, they're ...
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