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New Year, New You: Start Fresh With McAfee Protection Score
Are you an online oversharer? Do you give your full birthday to all your online shopping accounts? Have a few...
The Case for Your Security at CES 2023
As technology weaves itself into our lives in new and unexpected ways, some of it will get quite personal and...
40 Years of the Internet – Tips for Staying Safe Online in 2023
Authored by Vonny Gamot The official 40th birthday of the internet serves as a timely reminder that while it is...
Protecting Your Privacy This Year
If there’s a particularly clear picture that’s developed over the past couple of years, it’s that our privacy and our...
How to Protect Your Credit Score
It has a way of sneaking up on you. Credit theft and fraud. Maybe it’s happened to you. Maybe it’s...
How To Recognize An Online Scam
It’s been a particularly busy and colourful week, scam-wise in our household. Between 4 family members, we’ve received almost 20...
Start the New Year Right With This 3-Step Digital Detox
Pledging to follow healthier habits is consistently the most popular new year’s resolution. That January 1st promise looks different to...
Celebrate National Download Day With This Safe Downloading Checklist
Happy Download Day! (Yes, there’s a day for that.) Today is an excellent day to share downloading best practices to...
Everything You Need to Know About Identity Remediation
There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it: A stolen identity creates a mess. Once they have a few...
Myth-busting Antivirus Software Assumptions
The number of new viruses grows every day. In fact, McAfee registers an average of 1.1 million new malicious programs...
My Top Tips To Help Your Family Stay Safe Online This Holiday Period
‘It’s the most wonderful time of year’ – we’ve all heard the jingles and read the slogans. But the holiday...
The Best Way To Protect Your Online Identity
For many Aussies, identity theft was always something that happened to other people. People on TV, usually. But the recent...
How to Browse Privately on Your Phone
Your phone is likely a daily companion, giving you access to work emails, chats with friends, weather reports, and more...
Know Your Superpower: Brenda’s McAfee Journey
Our How I Got Here series spotlights the stories of McAfee team members who have successfully grown their careers. Read more about...
A PayPal Email Scam Is Making the Rounds: Here’s How to Identify and Avoid It
Payment applications make splitting restaurant bills, taxi fares, and household expenses so much easier. Without having to tally totals at...
2023’s Top 5 App Security Tips
Happy National App Day! No, we don’t mean apps of the mozzarella stick and potato skin variety, but your mobile...
McAfee 2023 Threat Predictions: Evolution and Exploitation
As 2022 draws to a close, the Threat Research Team at McAfee Labs takes a look forward—offering their predictions for...
BeReal – The Newest Kid On The Social Media Block
Without doubt, the biggest criticism we all have of social media is that everyone always looks fabulous! And while we...
How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data
Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around...
How To Make Security Easy
You flick through some reels and an ad for “a more private phone” crops up. You scroll through your news...
Unwrapping Some of the Holiday Season’s Biggest Scams
Even with the holidays in full swing, scammers won’t let up. In fact, it’s high time for some of their...
Fake Security App Found Abuses Japanese Payment System
Authored by SangRyol Ryu and Yukihiro Okutomi McAfee’s Mobile Research team recently analyzed new malware targeting mobile payment users in...
McAfee Personal Data Cleanup: Your Partner in Living a More Private Online Life
Do yourself a favor: Open a new browser tab and head to your search engine of choice. Type in your...
What is Antivirus and What Does It Really Protect?
Authored by Dennis Pang What is antivirus? That’s a good question. What does it really protect? That’s an even better...
Watch Out for These 3 World Cup Scams
What color jersey will you be sporting this November and December? The World Cup is on its way to television...
Privacy, Identity, and Device Protection: Why You Need to Invest in All Three
Protecting your devices with antivirus is a great start, yet it’s only one part of staying safer online. With the...
Why Everyone Needs a VPN
You may hear corporate cybersecurity experts hail the benefits of a VPN, or a virtual private network, to keep company...