company:mcafee

Inside ProtectWise, the Futuristic Startup That Ran Cybersecurity for the Super Bowl | Inc.com
▻https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/protectwise-futuristic-cybersecurity-startup.html

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“Most cybersecurity systems have the same interface as the cable modem in your house,” he says. “That needed to change.”

ProtectWise, which Chasin co-founded in 2014 in Denver with former McAfee exec Gene Stevens, completely reimagines the way cybersecurity software looks. Instead of staring at pie charts and seemingly infinite strings of characters, you’re presented with something much more visual: a three-dimensional cityscape. Your company’s entire network is laid out in front of you, and you can easily detect and observe abnormal behavior in real time—or rewind to see when and how an attack occurred.

To create the company’s futuristic interface, Chasin recruited Jake Sargeant, a Hollywood designer who has worked on visual effects for CGI-intensive films like Tron: Legacy and Terminator Salvation.

#interface #visualisation #cybersécurité aussi (mais ça je m’en fous un peu)

Une passerelle #Hollywood > #Silicon_Valley dans le sens inverse

DNSmessenger Malware uses DNS TXT records and PowerShell to create a backdoor for Command & Control communication

DNS was already being used for data exfiltration, but now also as a way for malware to talk to C2 servers to obtain PowerScript instructions.

This allows the attacker to use DNS communications to submit new commands to be run on infected machines and return the results of the command execution to the attacker, in a way that evades many security mechanisms and go undetected.

The infection is spread through a Word document pretending to be protected by McAfee, and asking you to Enable Content (allow macros) to be viewed.

Technical details are found here:

▻http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/03/dnsmessenger.html

#Talos
#DNS
#malware
#PowerScript

Chinese Computer Games | Foreign Affairs
►https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137244/adam-segal/chinese-computer-games

Keeping Safe in Cyberspace
By Adam Segal
March/April 2012

In March 2011, the U.S. computer security company RSA announced that hackers had gained access to security tokens it produces that let millions of government and private-sector employees, including those of defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, connect remotely to their office computers. Just five months later, the antivirus software company McAfee issued a report claiming that a group of hackers had broken into the networks of 71 governments, companies, and international organizations. These attacks and the many others like them have robbed companies and governments of priceless intellectual property and crucial military secrets. And although officials have until recently been reluctant to name the culprit, most experts agree that the majority of the attacks originated in China.

(bon papier mais paywall)

#chine #etats-unis #cyberguerre #internet

La fin du monde, “made in China” | Olivier Tesquet
►http://owni.fr/2011/08/04/espionnage-hacking-chine-etats-unis-cyberguerre

Dans un rapport, l’entreprise américaine #McAfee affirme avoir découvert la plus grande attaque informatique répertoriée à ce jour, visant plus de dix pays. Déjà, les regards se tournent vers la #Chine, et c’est tout sauf un hasard.

#Pouvoirs #cyber-trucs #cyberguerre #espionnage #états-unis #géopolitique #hacking #Shady_RAT

U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web - WSJ.com
►http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704438104576219190417124226.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENextto

For several years, according to Mr. Chakchouk, the Tunisian government used SmartFilter, which McAfee acquired in 2008. The McAfee spokesman confirmed the product has been sold in Tunisia, but declined to disclose its customers.

For better or worse, says Mr. Chakchouk, part of the legacy of Tunisia’s former regime has been to leave Tunisia with some of the most sophisticated Internet-filtering equipment in the world. “I had a group of international experts from a group here lately, who looked at the equipment and said: ’The Chinese could come here and learn from you.’”

#Etats_unis #censure #internet