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App Inventor Enables the Easy Creation of Malicious Apps
In today’s increasingly connected society, heaps of new mobile apps are cropping up every day. It no longer takes a...
Chinese Trojan Hooks Macs, iPhones
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security”–Benjamin Franklin A recent threat targeting Chinese users of Mac OS X and...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day, the Root Cause
On October 21, we warned the public that a new exploitation method could bypass Microsoft’s official patch (MS14-060, KB3000869) for...
Exploit Kits Improve Evasion Techniques
Exploit kits are toolkits that malicious developers use to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities, targeting web browsers and programs that...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day
This is the second part of our analysis of the Sandworm OLE zero-day vulnerability and the MS14-060 patch bypass. Check out...
McAfee’s New Digital Safety Program at the 2014 CED Fall Policy Conferencece
This week I had the privilege of visiting Washington, D.C., to attend the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Fall Policy...
Win32/Syndicasec Used In Targeted Attacks Against Indian Organizations
During the last couple of months, we’ve observed several RTF exploits that target Indian organizations. The first RTF exploit was...
At McAfee, Protecting Customers Takes Precedence Over Seeking Headlines
One question I often hear is “When will McAfee publish a report on the latest threat?” It seems to be...
Is This Your Photo? No, It’s SMS Spam With Mobile Malware
One of the most important concerns of Internet users is privacy. For this reason one of the most effective phishing...
Youth & Social Media
The digital world is here to stay. The youth are growing up with and making internet technologies, such as social...
What is Pharming?
. For a lot of kids today, mash-ups are all the rage—whether it’s combining two videos, two songs, or two...
Doxxing, The Internet and How You Can Lock Down Your Data
There exists, in this world of ours, a term describing the public release of a person’s identity against their will...
Should You Use Near-Field Communications?
Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you’d have? I’ve always wanted to send messages and ideas with my...
WhatsApp with End-to-End Encryption?
Throughout the past year, many mobile messaging apps have come under fire for inherent security vulnerabilities. This month, WhatsApp (one...
InstallCube: How Russian Programmers Turn Adware Into Cash
We often observe applications bundled with ad-displaying programs to generate revenue for those products. These are not necessarily unethical, but...
McAfee Adds Flash Exploit Detection to NSP 8.2
Adobe Flash vulnerabilities and exploits have worried users and security professionals for many years. The situation today remains serious. A...
What is Ransomware?
Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...
Slow File Infector Spies on Victims
Sourabh Kadam contributed to this blog. In the middle of 2012 McAfee Labs observed the complex malware XDocCrypt infecting documents,...
5 Priceless Gifts You Already Give Your Kids Every Day
If you are like me, the holidays usher in an assortment of feelings—some warm and fuzzy and some not...
2014: Security Year in Review
From the Heartbleed bug to large-scale (and highly publicized) data breaches, Shellshock to mobile threats—2014 did not leave us wanting...
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...
How Hackers Use Popular Shows to Infect Your Devices
If there’s one reasonable measurement of how popular a television series has become, it’s how often it’s illegally downloaded online....
Introducing the McAfee Partner Program
What better way to kickoff the start of 2015 than with our new McAfee Partner Program. This new program was...
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...
Every Step You Take, Every Call You Make: Is Your Phone Watching You?
Imagine a world where every mobile move you make – each text message and phone call – is broadcast to...
Apps Sending Plain HTTP Put Personal Data at Risk
At the AVAR Conference in November 2014, McAfee Labs presented how to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability of the Costco...
Don’t Believe These 6 Mobile Security Myths
Smartphones are picking up popularity. You can now access email, social media, and other things from a device that fits...
