Facebook and McAfee Join Hands to Offer Free Security Trial

Facebook and McAfee Join Hands to Offer Free Security Trial Giant social networking website Facebook, on Tuesday announced that it will be providing its user base with a free of cost 6 month trial of McAfee security software suite which has been released as Internet Security Suite. With the effort, the website is looking to offer better protection to its users.

The major player of the computer security world, McAfee is offering an independent online tool that would look to scan and remove any cyber attacks from a Facebook user’s computer.

As confirmed by the social networking site, the scanner would be offered free of charge to users, and if the users purchase the software after 6 months of trial, Facebook would not be taking any share in the revenue.

As of now, only the English version of the scanner is available, but soon users of other languages will be able to make use of it as well.

“Facebook is very serious about security and has made significant efforts to protect its users and service by investing in dedicated teams and sophisticated systems, and this partnership with McAfee furthers that mission. We believe our partnership will make a real difference in the battle to secure the Internet”, said McAfee Consumer, Mobile and Small Business executive VP, GM Todd Gebhart.

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No breach in computer security system: PMO

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has said there was “no breach” in the security systems of its computers or those in other central government departments.

Asked about a media report that hackers from China have targeted computers in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), an official in the PMO denied the report.

“Attempts have always been there to hack our computers, but we have our security systems in place,” a PMO official told IANS.

“There has been no breach on our security system, we are absolutely safe,” PMO media adviser Harish Khare told IANS.

According to a Headlines Today TV channel report, hackers from China had targeted computers in the PMO around Dec 15 last year and “investigators are still coming to terms with the depth of the damage”.

It said the hackers had aimed at the “cream of India’s national security set-up: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar, PM’s Special Envoy Shyam Saran and Deputy National Security Advisor Shekhar Dutt. The four and up to 26 others were squarely in the crosshairs of the hacking attempt”.

“The hacking spyware itself was embedded in a PDF document. And the Trojan Horse was programmed to carry out an array of functions, including downloading files, accessing emails and passwords and also accessing the desktop from a remote location,” it said.

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