McAfee makes a (poorly timed) stand

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I’ve just got back from InfoSec, the annual IT security expo at Earls Court. Many major companies were there, including Symantec, Kaspersky, Cisco, HP… and McAfee. No reason on Earth why McAfee shouldn’t be there, of course, but in light of the company’s recent embarrassments, I couldn’t help but smirk at one unfortunate piece of stage dressing on the company’s stand:

Could McAfee (and Firefox) kill spam?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Today I received the most convincing phishing email yet to hit my inbox, to the extent that it inspired enough doubt in my mind that I clicked on one of the links (making sure my security software was up to date first, just in case!).

Why was I fooled? For one, it actually had my name in the email, and for another we as a magazine have been focusing on eBay for the last month or two as part of the investigative cover feature that adorns the current issue (eBay exposed). Could it be some sort of malicious attack from an eBay devotee, a paranoid part of my mind wondered?

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