News10: About 19% of computers in the U.S. are roaming the Internet without any antivirus protection, finds a study from security firm McAfee.
Based on scans of 28 million PCs in 24 countries, McAfee found 17% were unprotected, meaning they either carried no antivirus software or the software was disabled.
The days of the humble password are clearly numbered, and John McAfee, that always colourful character from the security world, has his own invention which he believes will hammer the final nails into the coffin of the traditional user/password combination – the EveryKey.
Maximum PC: New types of ransomware increased 165 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to Intel Security's McAfee Labs Threats Report for May 2015 (PDF). The rapid rise was driven in large part by the CTB-Locker ransomware family, which McAfee Labs says is difficult to detect, along with a new rasnomware family called Teslacrype and the emergence of new versions of Cryptowall, TorrentLocker, and BandarChor.
Forget typing in passwords, Intel wants you to use your body to log into email and online bank accounts.
I hope they succeeded. It annoys me a lot whenever I forget my passwords and have to reset them.
its something about the net in the hands of a veteran user.
1 of my friends lives life on the edge with his pc. its like hes wearing no condom on the internet.
he pirates
torrents
and does all this banking etc.
I bet him 100$ that his comp was infected
and he let me run 5 different programs to scan and it was 100% clean - the 5 or 6 cracks he had.
its not like the old XP days anymore.
they are making the OS and the browsers more efficient with protection and security and patches.