The bMighty Blog -- International

McAfee: Hong Kong Now Dominates Dangerous Domains List

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:50 AM ET | Jun 4, 2008

The malware map, like malware itself, keeps changing. McAfee's latest look at where the bad things grow shows a surge in .hk-based threats, moving the Hong Kong extension to the top of the list.

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Business & E-Business | International | Piracy | Security

McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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Ooops -- Microsoft Nags More Office Users Than It Meant To

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:12 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Microsoft's latest attempt to track down illegitimate copies of its programs -- in this case Office -- went a bit (and way more than a bit) farther than the company intended last week when it released an Office piracy detector worldwide, instead of to the four countries the program targeted.

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Hardware & Software | International | Piracy | Security | Windows | bMighty

Sweets For The Cheats: Like Passwords For Chocolate

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:05 AM ET | Apr 17, 2008

It's silly -- and sexist -- season again, as a European security conference lets us know, as it does every year, just how easy it is to acquire passwords from workers. Namely, how many passwords can you get in exchange for a bit of chocolate?

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McAfee Volunteers Go For All The Spam They Can Stand (And Then Some!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:03 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Y'know those e-mails and offers and come-ons you're never never supposed to open or reply to? Well, McAfee is putting fifty, count 'em, fifty volunteers from across the world on an all-the-spam-you-can-answer diet. You get it, you answer it; you see it you click it -- every one of them for a month Seriously.

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Trend Micro Anti-Virus Site Hacked

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:45 AM ET | Mar 14, 2008

If the anti-virus makers can't keep their sites safe, how safe are the rest of us? That's one of the questions raised by a hack of Trend Micro earlier this week.

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