McAfee continues to dominate the endpoint security industry with its Total Protection for Enterprise solution. Leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leader quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.”
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms is based on an assessment of a company’s ability […]

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Earlier today we (McAfee AVERT Labs)posted a blog entry: RealPlayer Zero Day Exploit Hits the Web. Well RealPlayer responded RealQuick. In less than 24 hours they managed to ship a patch. That’s what I call rapid response. Real also states that more information will be posted on their Security Updates & Incident […]

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If you’ve recently received an email with an attachment or link, asking you to install a patch or an update from Microsoft, please beware as this is in all probability a hoax and could transfer…
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Spam or Phishing?
The world of security has become blurred. Is the email described in the Symantec blog […]

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Human error caused the recent WGA failure that falsely tagged 12,000 users as running pirated software. Microsoft disputes calling it an outage, however.
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Microsoft WGA outage
Well, human error is tough to fend off in the world of IT Security, but is it really? The WGA failure that tagged 12,000 users as running […]

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Microsoft is working on the problem, and is telling users who are affect that they should “try again” later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Monday, August 28th, according to ARS Technica.
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What is Windows WGA?
Windows Genuine Advantage is one of […]

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Network World reports that the massive user reboots that occurred after Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates were installed on August 14th were responsible for taking the network offline for two days […]

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Patch Management is designed to provide an organization with control over the software updates it deploys. With so many worms and viruses that continually exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Products, it is important to familiarize yourself and your employees with a simple process of keeping up-to-date with patch management. Every month new security updates are released […]

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