As threats to mobile devices sharply increase, a good security app can make a huge difference. McAfee Mobile Security, the mobile version of McAfee’s desktop software, can help protect your phone or tablet from mobile malware, phishing, and device theft. McAfee provides a free seven-day trial, but requires a £24.99…
McAfee unveils new mobile security tools for BYOD environments
McAfee announced new techniques and tools for protecting mobile devices, data, and apps with its McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management 10 prodcut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Mobile devices have quickly gone from niche devices, to luxury gadgets, to mainstream implements, to indispensible mobile productivity tools and have been…
Malware breached 75M mark in 2011 —McAfee report
More than 75 million samples of malware were recorded in 2011, with those targeting mobile devices on the rise, according to security vendor McAfee. McAfee Labs senior vice-president Vincent Weafer said threats highly evolved in 2011, according to a report on PC World. “Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform…
Malware grows to the tune of 75 million samples in 2011: McAfee
Despite McAfee predicting that unique malware samples would hit 75 million in 2011, the security vendor actually found that the real number actually surpassed that estimate. The vendor’s latest report, McAfee Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2011, finds that while new malware slowed in Q4, mobile malware was on the rise…
McAfee Chief Technology Officer to Keynote at RSA Conference 2012
McAfee today announced that Stuart McClure, chief technology officer for the company, will deliver a keynote speech at the RSA Conference 2012. McClure’s keynote titled, ‘Securing the Unsecurable’ will focus on ways the threat environment has changed and how things that were once thought of as impossible to be secured,…
McAfee: Malware samples exceeded expectations in 2011
Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN’s San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for…
McAfee Internet Security 2012 review
McAfee Internet Security 2012 (£27.50 for one year, three PCs including a 50% discount) performed worse than all its rivals in a recent roundup of 2012 internet security suites. Despite its low ranking, it performed well in some areas; its overall uneven showing, however, proved to be its undoing compared…
McAfee Internet Security 2012 review
McAfee Internet Security 2012 (£27.50 for one year, three PCs including a 50% discount) performed worse than all its rivals in a recent roundup of 2012 internet security suites. Despite its low ranking, it performed well in some areas; its overall uneven showing, however, proved to be its undoing compared…
McAfee updates Mobile Security to 2.0, keeps you protected on the go (video)
McAfee Mobile Security 2.0 Combines Powerful New Security Features for Smartphone and Tablet Users First Mobile Security App to Combine Antivirus, Anti-theft, Web and App Protection, Call/SMS Filtering and Protection from Potentially Unwanted Programs SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–McAfee today announced the next generation of McAfee® Mobile Security software, providing smartphone…
McAfee Mobile Security 2.0 Combines Powerful New Security Features for Smartphone and Tablet Users
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– McAfee today announced the next generation of McAfee® Mobile Security software, providing smartphone and tablet owners with more controls to preserve their privacy and protection against financial fraud, identity theft and viruses. Available now, McAfee Mobile Security 2.0 supports Google Android-based smartphones and tablets, including those…