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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 Privacy & Identity Protection

What is Shoulder Surfing?

The next time you’re in a public place and glued to your smartphone or tablet — whether it’s at the...

Internet Security

What Is Smishing and Vishing, and How Do You Protect Yourself

Smishing and vishing are scams where criminals attempt to get users to click a fraudulent link through a phone text...

Internet Security

What Is Smishing and Vishing, and How Do You Protect Yourself?

Smishing and vishing are scams where criminals attempt to get users to click a fraudulent link through a phone text...

Mobile Security

What Is Smishing? Here’s How to Spot Fake Texts and Keep Your Info Safe

Your phone buzzes. You hope it’s a reply from last night’s date, but instead you get an entirely different swooping...

Internet Security Family Safety

What is Social Engineering?

In the realm of cybersecurity, there is one vulnerability that is often overlooked – the human element. While firewalls, encryption,...

Internet Security

What is Sora and What Does It Mean for Your Personal Internet Security?

Imagine a tool that can transform text into captivating videos, bridging the gap between imagination and reality by creating videos...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

What is Spam?

Everyone’s heard of spam as it pertains to emails. Spam isn’t necessarily a malicious message designed to trick you into...

Privacy & Identity Protection

What is Spyware?

Spyware. If the name sounds creepy and invasive, that’s because it is.  The thought of someone virtually looking over your...

Internet Security

What Is Synthetic Identity Theft?

It’s too bad cybercriminals don’t funnel their creativity into productive pursuits because they’re constantly coming up with nefarious new ways...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

What is the Cloud?

You’ve probably heard of people storing information in “the cloud,” but what does that really mean, and is it safe...

Privacy & Identity Protection

What is the Dark Web?

The dark web. The name raises all kinds of questions. What is the dark web, really? Where is it? Can...

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What is the Dark Web? Everything You Need to Know

You open up your laptop and check the daily news. You see a headline stating that one of your favorite online retailers was breached and that thousands of...

Internet Security Family Safety

What is Typosquatting?

Typosquatting, also known as URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting (sitting on sites under someone else’s brand or copyright)...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

What is Wardriving?

Wireless networks have certainly brought a lot of convenience to our lives, allowing us to work and surf from almost...

Internet Security

What is ‘Covert Redirect’ and Should You be Worried?

When Heartbleed struck in April, it shook the Internet to its core in an almost literal sense: the vulnerability, which...

Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

What Is the CurveBall Bug? Here’s What You Need to Know 

Today, it was announced that researchers published proof of concept code (essentially, an exercise to determine if an idea is a reality) that exploits a recently patched vulnerability in...

Mobile Security Internet Security

What It Takes for Security in the Internet of Things

The next time you buy a car, chances are, it’ll be connected to your phone. Maybe your next refrigerator, thermostat,...

Life at McAfee

What I’m Thankful for This Year: Combining Passion & Career

By Philip, Program Manager, People First Office Back in April, I started my new role at McAfee as the Program...

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