With a very interesting move, Intel buys the software security giant McAfee for $7.8bln  and the Cable Modem Unit from Texas Instruments for an undisclosed amount. Almost one yeag ago, Intel bough Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software and apparently with the acquisition of McAfee, Intel tries to become one of the big players in the handheld market. The acquisition [...]

Google and Mcafee have announced that they found a new global botnet consisting of potentially tens of thousands of compromised machines that is targeting Vietnamese users in the attempt to silence political activists. Neel Mehta from Google’s security team said that users got infected when they installed  trojans that were masquerading as legitimate Vietnamese keyboard drivers, used to allow Windows [...]