RSS_Virtulization

My McAfee Chronicles is a series featuring McAfee team members who have interesting and inspiring life stories to share. Meet Shiva, a Software Development Engineer in Bangalore, India.  When a traumatic road accident changed the course of Shiva’s life, he had two options – give up on life or give life his best shot. For Shiva, there was only one obvious choice. Through his unrelenting willpower and sheer determination, he was able to overcome all odds. Shiva shares his deeply…

By: Smriti, People Partner McAfee continues to recognize and celebrate hardworking mothers across our global workforce. We continue to advance in our workplace culture by offering policies and programs to better serve working parents. Meet Smriti as she shares her incredible story as a new mother and how McAfee helped her to transition comfortably into a new role as a working parent.My Journey at McAfee began in 2017 as a People Partner. My role includes developing policies and processes for People Success.  My husband and I were delighted to welcome our first-born. In 2019, we welcomed our daughter into our…

Scammers are launching more malicious campaigns designed to take advantage of the anxiety and confusion over the COVID-19 vaccines. Image: iStock The rollout of coronavirus vaccines around the world is certainly welcome news following a year grappling with the deadly pandemic. But vaccine deployment has encountered bumps in the road as many people are still uncertain over when, where and how to get their shots. That confusion has been ripe for exploitation by cybercriminals, triggering…

SAP and IBM have changed the hiring and onboarding process to open up more jobs to non-traditional candidates. An IBM security operations center. Image: John Mottern/IBM Cybersecurity moves fast and changes constantly, which requires strong problem-solving skills and outside-the-box thinking. The other challenge the industry faces is an ongoing shortage of people to fill open positions. One way to solve this problem is to modernize hiring requirements to include candidates who have the capabilities for…

Famed anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has been indicted on charges of cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering and more. The 75-year-old, who is in Spain awaiting extradition to the US for tax evasion, is accused of conspiring with executive advisor Jimmy Watson and others on two fraud schemes running from December 2017-October 2018. The first was a classic pump-and-dump in which the defendants allegedly bought large numbers of publicly traded altcoins, promoted them on Twitter without revealing…

0. Introduction John Lambert, a distinguished researcher specializing in threat intelligence at Microsoft, once said these words that changed perspectives: “Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in graphs.” This is true and, while it remains that way, attackers will win most of the time. However, the true power of graphs does not only reside in constructing them, but also in how we build them and what we do with them. For that, we need to…

Marc Andreessen had it right – software has eaten the world. As a result, the world can be hacked. Just look at the past few months. The SolarWinds caper – the “largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen” according to Microsoft president Brad Smith – gave its Russian perps months of free reign across untold US government agencies and private companies. But stupid also works: Last month in Florida, a water treatment…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has joined forces with nearly 40 US states to crack a major charity fraud operation that scammed victims out of more than $110m. The regulator teamed up with 46 agencies from 38 states and Washington DC, most of them state attorneys general, to shut down the work of Associated Community Services (ACS), sister companies Central Processing Services and Community Services Appeal, and two other fund-raising spin-offs run by ACS managers,…

Companies are looking to grab any technology-driven advantage they can as they adapt to new ways of working, managing employees, and serving customers. They are making bigger moves toward the cloud, e-commerce, digital supply chains, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), data analytics, and other areas that can deliver efficiency and innovation. At the same time, enterprises are trying to manage risk — and the same digital initiatives that create new opportunities can also…