I know I just mentioned them, but they released a pretty interesting study. They took a look at celebrities and found out who the most dangerous is. By most dangerous I mean the one that contains the most malware on google. Their most dangerous celebrity: Cameron Diaz. When you click on a site about her from Google, they found you have a 1 in 10 chance of going to a bad webstie. Julia Roberts came in 2nd place and Jessica Biel was in 3rd. Some other interesting results were that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin were near the bottom of the list. Surprising considering their popularity. Also shocking: Justin Bieber was really low too, probably because most of that is generated by kids tweeting about him and stuff. There’s other interesting results which you can view by clicking the source link.

Source: McAffe

Intel has bought McAffe for 7.68 billion. My question is why? Does anyone use McAffe anymore? Other than people who are too lazy to uninstall the default antivirus package on their computer and put something better on there? Seems odd why Intel would be interested in them. But, they are, so they bought them. McAffe is better than nothing, but they’re stuck in the old business model of paid antivirus software. It seems like most companies are moving towards free solutions, just look at the success of AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials. Oh well, competition is a good thing.

Source: Engadget

As we all know, GPU’s are crazy these days. The processing power contained on a top of the line consumer GPU is just out of this world. Great for gamers, but it’s becoming a nightmare for security-minded individuals. With all this increased power comes the ability for better brute force password cracking. According to Richard Boyd from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, passwords that are 7 characters or less are now “hopelessly inadequate”. As GPU power increases and people add more of them to their machines, the threat increases. To help protect yourself, be sure to use many different passwords and keep them at 12 characters or above, making sure to use a mixture of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters. I suggest using something like KeePass to help you manage all these passwords.

Source: BBC