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Device & App Safety Guide for Families
While we talk about online safety each week on this blog, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), a time...
Determined to Find Love Online in 2018? Here are 5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy
It turns out January is the busiest month for online dating since millions of singles have resolved to embark on...
Despite Decline in Use of Adobe Flash, Vulnerabilities Will Continue to Cause Concern
This post was researched and written by Brook Schoenfield with the assistance of Tim Hux, Abhishek Karnik, Asheer Malhotra, and...
Depression in Teens: How to Spot It, What to Do Next
Instagramming, tweeting, posting, and snap chatting. It’s the social culture of the young adults around us but at what cost to...
Demystifying Blockchain: Sifting Through Benefits, Examples and Choices
You have likely heard that blockchain will disrupt everything from banking to retail to identity management and more. You may...
Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet
Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in...
DEFCON – Connected Car Security
Sometime in the distant past, that thing in your driveway was a car. However, the “connected car is already the...
Deepfakes of Prince William Lure Social Media Users into an Investment Scam
Deepfakes of Prince William and the UK Prime Minister are pushing investment scams on Facebook and Instagram. Uncovered by Fenimore...
Deepfake Drama: How Gwyneth Paltrow Became the Latest Target in AI Deception
As technology advances, so do the methods used by cybercriminals to spread misinformation and scams. One of the most concerning...
Deepfake Defense: Your 8-Step Shield Against Digital Deceit
A disturbing story out of western Spain spotlights challenges of technological evolution. Unwitting children and teenagers were victims of users...
Decyphering the Noise Around ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Team has closely followed the attack techniques that have been named Meltdown and Spectre...
Deconstructing Amadey’s Latest Multi-Stage Attack and Malware Distribution
Authored by By Yashvi Shah McAfee Labs have identified an increase in Wextract.exe samples, that drop a malware payload at...
Deadly Digital Dares: The Blackout Challenge on TikTok
The social network TikTok is chockfull of interesting, fun, laugh-out-loud videos shared by creators worldwide. Kids, as well as parents,...
DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path
At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting various financial institutions,...
Date Night #FromHome Ideas
Date Night #FromHome ideas “So, what movie should we watch?” The dreaded question. Twenty minutes of “mmm, maybe” later, you...
Data Shows You’ll Encounter A Deepfake Today—Here’s How To Recognize It
The internet is brimming with content designed to entertain, inform—and sometimes deceive. The latest tool in a cybercriminal’s arsenal? Deepfakes....
Data Privacy Day: Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data and Enabling Trust
This blog post was written by Bruce Snell. At McAfee, we are happy to be part of Data Privacy Day....
Data Breach Exposes 3 Billion Personal Information Records
News of a major data breach that could affect nearly three billion records comes to light from a somewhat unusual source — a class-action complaint filed
