According to a recent McAfee survey report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), cyber-attacks are increasingly being used as a strategic weapon by governments as well as political organizations.

Popular social networking website Facebook, and giant of the online and PC security world, McAfee, have joined hands in order to improve the security Facebook offers to its current user base of
350 million users, which keeps growing with every passing day.

According to a recent McAfee report, the year 2010 will witness Adobe surpassing Microsoft as the primary target for hackers and virus writers. Thus far, Microsoft, which holds a leading stake of the operating system, office productivity, and Web browser markets, has been the most common target for malware attacks.

In its all-encompassing fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report released on Tuesday, security firm McAfee has cautioned that warfare can extend to the cyber arena - with countries like Russia, China, France, Israel and the US quietly involved in the process of expanding their computerized armory.

In a move that would ensure the safety of consumer data, McAfee, one of the world's foremost Internet security providers, Friday announced an unlimited online backup service that would automatically upload data from the hard drive of a user's computer to a remote server.

McAfee's recently-released third annual list of the "most dangerous celebrities" in cyberspace has the former "7th Heaven" star Jessica Biel in the top slot!

As a part of settlement terms with the office of the New York Attorney General, antivirus vendors Symantec and McAfee would be paying a US$750,000 to the office in penalties and costs.

In a $33-million cash upfront deal announced on Friday, the Santa Clara-based McAfee Inc. is set to acquire the Cupertino-based 'whitelisting' technology vendor - Solidcore Systems Inc. As per the agreement, McAfee would pay another $14 million to Solidcore after its achievement of certain performance targets.

Posting its better-than-expected first quarter results on Thursday, the Santa Clara-based security software maker McAfee Inc. reported a $51.8 million net income, or 34 cents per share, as against the last year same-quarter figures of $30.2 million or 18 cents per year.

As per the security vendor McAfee study, "Carbon Footprint of Spam," the annoying and, at times, criminally misleading spam also has a carbon footprint! The caustic affect of spam to the environment includes considerable energy consumption and the production of carbon emissions. McAfee's momentous study was conducted in association with climate-change specialist ICF International.