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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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Internet Security

Tackling Threats at Super Bowl 51

When it comes to the Super Bowl, football and food are the first things that come to mind—not cyberthreats. But...

Family Safety

The 5-Minute Parent’s Guide to Instagram

If you’re a tween or even a teen, it’s all about Instagram. As my 13 year old puts it so...

McAfee Labs

Analyzing CVE-2016-9311: NTPD Vulnerability Can Lead to Denial of Service

The network time protocol synchronizes time across various devices on a network. The network time protocol daemon (NTPD) is an...

Family Safety

How Much Control Do You Really Have Over Your Family’s Connected Life?

If you took an inventory of your family’s connected devices, would you have three or four devices, or would it...

McAfee News

McAfee Displacement Products Create a Trip of a Lifetime

This blog was written by Richard Steranka. In the second half of 2016, we challenged our Platinum and Gold partners...

Privacy & Identity Protection

Manage your data this Data Privacy Day

You know when Valentine’s Day is, and on which day Friendship Day falls, but do you know the day in...

McAfee Labs

Spotlight on Shamoon

Our analysis this month has pointed to Shamoon emerging in the Middle East. We have recently seen a number of...

McAfee Labs

With Release of Windows 10, Questions About BitLocker Arise Again

This post was written by Ted Pan. For those of you who were around during the original release of Microsoft’s...

Family Safety Security News

Trends: Adult Cyberbulling is No Laughing Matter

This past year is one for the digital record books. As incredible as it sounds, adults — not those impulsive,...

Mobile Security

Two Attacks On Mobile Banking Are Back

It feels as through every day, a new app is released that makes it easier to pay for something through...

Internet Security Family Safety

Raising Kids in a Digital World: Top Takeaways from Our 2017 Connected Family Survey

Today’s world is certainly a digital one. Everything, from the stores where we shop to the messages we send to...

Family Safety

The Parent’s Cybersafety Checklist for Back To School

Sometimes I am not sure which is more stressful – Christmas, or getting kids ready for the school year. So...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

Digital Wallets: Safety tips from an industry leader

As digitization gains traction and we move towards a cashless economy, it will be of great help to know how...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

Doctoring Data: Why Cybercriminals Have Their Eye on Healthcare

Fun fact: your healthcare data is worth roughly 10 times as much as your credit card number. Well, to a...

McAfee Labs

Analyzing KillDisk Ransomware, Part 1: Whitelisting

This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. At McAfee Labs we recently analyzed the ransomware KillDisk. We will share...

McAfee Labs

Stopping Malware With a Fake Virtual Machine

As we explained in a previous post, some advanced malware can detect a virtual environment such as a sandbox to...

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...

McAfee Labs

Trojanized Photo App on Google Play Signs Up Users for Premium Services

Mobile apps usually have names that give some indication of their function. In one recent case, however, we found a...

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