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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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Three Lessons I’ve Learned Battling Cancer and Cybercriminals

By Celeste, Senior Principal Engineer With our people at the heart, we are McAfee As Chief Data Scientist, Senior Principal...

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Three Reasons You Need a VPN

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Three Signs Your Teen May Be Sexting and What to Do About It

I will be the first to confess that sometimes when I look at my kids, my eyes do not work....

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Three Words Every Parent Needs to Know

  Have you noticed that commonplace words don’t quite mean what they used to? It’s a subtle but alarming shift...

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TikTok Challenge, Hoop App, and Other Headlines You May Have Missed

Digital news that affects families seems to be dominating the headlines these days. To keep parents in the know, here...

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TikTok Update: Dangerous Viral Challenges & Age Restrictions

TikTok Update: Dangerous Viral Challenges & Age Restrictions It’s popular. It’s uplifting. It’s creative. It’s entertaining. It can also be...

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Time to make your Kids aware of Digital Fraud?

Long ago I watched a movie where the hero returned home after a harrowing experience only to find that an...

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Time to Take a Good, Hard Look at Your Cybersecurity Health

What happens when your livelihood is at stake, thanks to someone stealing your identity or draining your account? The real-life...

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Timeless Principles to Help Your Child Develop Social Superpowers

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years...

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Timeline of Bitcoin Events Demonstrates Online Currency’s Volatility

The buzz about Bitcoin has moved from online circles to mainstream media sources. Last week’s news of the collapse of...

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Tinder Not So Tender

Tinder is a kind of modern day ‘Hot or Not’ mobile dating app. It finds matches based on location, then...

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Tips for Effective Threat Hunting

This blog was co-written by Ramnath Venugopalan. In May, McAfee surveyed more than 700 IT and security professionals around the...

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To Preserve Bandwidth, Gogo Inflight Executes a Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Early last week, Gogo Inflight, a provider of in-flight Internet access for airlines, caught a lot of headlines for a...

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To Realize a Better Healthcare System, The IOTs Needs to be Secured

The adage, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” has, according to The Washington Post, been around since the...

Family Safety

To Skype or Not to Skype: What Parents Need to Know About Video Chat

Captain Kirk isn’t the only one who gets to video chat these days. If your kids have a smart phone...

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To Unplug Or Not To Unplug? That Is The Holiday Question

If you’re heading away these holidays, it’s likely you’ve workshopped the idea of whether to ‘unplug’ – and I’m not...

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Today’s Connected Cars Vulnerable to Hacking, Malware

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team recently published an article about threats to automobiles on the French site JournalAuto.com. Connected cars are growing rapidly in number and represent the next big step in personal transportation.

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Today’s Microsoft Outage Explained and Why it Triggers a Scam Playbook

Microsoft users across the U.S. experienced widespread disruptions Thursday after a technical failure prevented people from sending or receiving email...

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