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Mobile Security
App Lock: The Security System for Unprotected Mobile Apps
Lock: To fasten, to make secure, to confine or exclude by. To fix in place so that...Dec 10, 2012 | 3 MIN READ

Privacy & Identity Protection
10 Tips to Safe Online Shopping
How times have changed. I can remember when Christmas didn’t start until after Thanksgiving—not before Halloween as...Nov 21, 2012 | 4 MIN READ

Family Safety
The Top 12 Scams Of Christmas To Watch Out For
McAfee Latest 2012 Holiday-Related Online Scams and Security Tips for Consumers The holidays are just around the...Nov 12, 2012 | 11 MIN READ

Privacy & Identity Protection
Hack the Vote: Pros and Cons of Electronic Voting
After 17 months and billions in campaign spending, it was up to the scores of American people...Nov 07, 2012 | 5 MIN READ

Privacy & Identity Protection
Actress Sofia Vergara’s Personal Photos Hacked or Stolen Via Mobile
In my line of work I get emails such as this one: “Hi Robert, I’m not sure...Oct 29, 2012 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Update: NGRBot Posing as Skype Drops Ransomware With Fake McAfee Logo
This blog was updated on October 15. See the end of this file. We recently received a...Oct 12, 2012 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Multiplatform Fake AV Uses Different GUIs
Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to...Oct 11, 2012 | 4 MIN READ

McAfee Labs
Android Phones Vulnerable to Loss of Data, Apps
Recently security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar discussed a vulnerability that caused a Samsung Galaxy SIII to return to...Oct 04, 2012 | 3 MIN READ

Security News
2012 Online Safety Survey – Majority Of Americans Do Not Feel Completely Safe Online
From tweens and teens to silver surfers, more people are jumping onto multiple Internet connected devices every...Oct 01, 2012 | 4 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
NGRBot Spreads Via Chat
NGRBot is a worm that propagates through chat messengers, the Internet Relay Chat channel, social networking sites...Sep 20, 2012 | 5 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
‘Police Ransomware’ Preys on Guilty Consciences
“Police ransomware” is big business, generating millions of euros for organized criminal groups. In May, at Europol’s...Sep 11, 2012 | 3 MIN READ

Family Safety
McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrity 2012 – And The Riskiest Are…
Emma Watson has replaced Heidi Klum as McAfee’s 2012 Most Dangerous Celebrity to search for online. For...Sep 09, 2012 | 7 MIN READ