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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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8 Easy Ways to Hack-Proof Your Family’s Smartphones

Smartphones have changed the face of parenting in profound ways. But for all the efficiency they’ve introduced into family life,...

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750K Birth Certificate Applications Exposed Online: 5 Tips to Help You Stay Secure

Most people applying for birth certificates aren’t thinking that their private information will be made readily available to the public....

Internet Security How To Guides and Tutorials

70,000 Phishing Emails Sent Impersonating the IRS: How to Stay Protected

70,000 Phishing Emails Sent Impersonating the IRS: How to Stay Protected  You wake up, log in to your Outlook, and...

Family Safety

7 Ways to Wreck a Cybercrook’s Holidays

’Tis the season for giving and who better to give a giant headache to than the digital scammers working overtime...

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7 Ways to Tell If It’s a Fake

Unfortunately in today’s world, scammers are coming at us from all angles to try and trick us to get us...

Family Safety

7 Ways to Boost the Love and Balance the Tech in Your Family

What if the most valuable gift you could give your sweetheart — or your family — cost you absolutely nothing?...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

7 Tips: How to Raise a Leader in a ‘Follower’ World

Leadership training isn’t exclusive to adults. And in today’s online culture of “following” and digital profiles, it’s never too early...

How To Guides and Tutorials Mobile Security

7 Tips to Protect Your Smartphone from Getting Hacked

There’s little rest for your hard-working smartphone. If you’re like many professionals today, you use it for work, play, and a mix of personal...

Mobile Security

7 Tips to Protect Your Devices and Private Information from Ransomware

Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...

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7 Tips to Make Sure Your Smartphone Use Doesn’t Ruin Holiday Gatherings

The gravy wasn’t the only thing steaming at the Thanksgiving table this year. Grandma wasn’t happy. It turns out that...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

7 Tips to Help Your Teen Avoid Conflict in Group Texts

If you’ve ever had a conversation over email or text take a sudden nosedive due to miscommunication, then buckle up—you...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

7 Tips to Boost Your Family Goal Setting for 2015

To catch a vision for your family in the year ahead first requires a brief look back. What worked in...

Family Safety

7 Things to Look for on Your Teen’s Instagram

  Over 300 million users post an average of 70 million photos and hit the like button 2.5 billion times...

Family Safety

7 Things Parents Need to Know About the Voxer Voice App

Every five minutes, it seems, a new app comes out but only a handful stick with tweens and teens looking...

Family Safety

7 Strategies to Help Kids Sidestep Digital Friction this Summer

What happens when you mix long summer days with a steady flow of SnapChats, tweets, Instagram feeds, and a non-stop...

Family Safety

7 Soft Skills Critical to Parenting Today’s Digital Kids

  We write a lot about the tech basics—or the hard skills—you need to excel in your superhero job as...

Privacy & Identity Protection

7 Simple Ways to Minimize Risk to Your Family’s Privacy Online

If there is an upside to the torrent of headlines about fake news, intelligence leaks, and email hacking surrounding this...

How To Guides and Tutorials Mobile Security

7 Signs Your Phone Has a Virus and What You Can Do

Viruses are a type of malware that replicate themselves and spread throughout the entire system. In this article, we will give you a rundown of viruses that can infect your phone and how you can identify and eliminate them.

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

7 Safety Tips to Schooling in a Digital World

This fall, many students are headed back-to-school full time. However, just as workplaces now accommodate for remote work, schools are...

Family Safety

7 Questions to Ask Your Child’s School About Cybersecurity Protocols

Just a few weeks into the new school year and, already, reports of malicious cyberattacks in schools have hit the...

Family Safety

7 Phrases to Help You Steer Clear of Family Conflict this Holiday

When it comes to family and the holidays, even Rudolph had trouble keeping the peace with the other reindeer during...

Family Safety

7 Digital Safety Tips for Teens Filing Their First Tax Returns

Landing that first part-time job in high school and filing your first tax return is a rite of passage for...

Family Safety

7 Creative Ways to Get Your Teen Talking

“Yeah.” “No.” “Nothing.” “Good.” “Okay.” “Whatever.” Do you recognize that notorious bit of prose? It’s the six-word vocabulary list teens...

Family Safety

7 Conversations to Help Build Up Your Family’s Digital Literacy Skills

With the surge of misleading content online, helping your child learn to become an independent thinker is no small task....

Family Safety

7 Common Digital Behaviors that Put Your Family’s Privacy at Risk

It would be impossible nowadays to separate our everyday lives from technology. We travel well-worn, comfortable paths online and engage...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

6 Ways to ‘Just Say No’ to the Time Wasting Habit of Digital Digging

If an app existed that tracked the minutes we spent looking at other people’s social profiles online (much like a...

How To Guides and Tutorials

6 Tips to Help Your Balance Your Children’s Summer Screentime

The pandemic forced many parents into screentime management Bootcamp. We learned quickly that more hours at home require more intention...

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