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Top Tips for Securing Home Cameras
Installing a home surveillance camera system can add great benefits but also may introduce new risks to privacy and network...
How ‘Switcher’ Malware Moves an Attack from Your Phone to Your Router
Why attack one device when you can get inside an entire network and manipulate every device connected to it? That’s...
The Most Important Mobile Security Resolutions for 2017
January gets a bad rap. A dreary month, the air is bitterly cold, and the days are so short that...
Help! My Child Just Got His First Phone, Now What?
Q: We held off as long as we could but finally decided to give our child a smartphone for Christmas....
From Smart Shoes to Safe Routers: Innovation Shines Bright at CES 2017
CES 2017 (the Consumer Electronics Show) has come and gone once again, bringing with it the newest wearables, state-of-the-art tech...
What You Need to Know About Security Threats in 2017
2016 has been an exciting year on the tech front, with our hearts being won over by technology ranging from...
Turkish Instagram Password Stealers Found on Google Play
McAfee’s mobile malware research team has found several Instagram password stealers on the Google Play store. (Google has since removed...
Trojanized Photo App on Google Play Signs Up Users for Premium Services
Mobile apps usually have names that give some indication of their function. In one recent case, however, we found a...
7 Simple Ways to Minimize Risk to Your Family’s Privacy Online
If there is an upside to the torrent of headlines about fake news, intelligence leaks, and email hacking surrounding this...
Stopping Malware With a Fake Virtual Machine
As we explained in a previous post, some advanced malware can detect a virtual environment such as a sandbox to...
Analyzing KillDisk Ransomware, Part 1: Whitelisting
This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. At McAfee Labs we recently analyzed the ransomware KillDisk. We will share...
Doctoring Data: Why Cybercriminals Have Their Eye on Healthcare
Fun fact: your healthcare data is worth roughly 10 times as much as your credit card number. Well, to a...
Digital Wallets: Safety tips from an industry leader
As digitization gains traction and we move towards a cashless economy, it will be of great help to know how...
The Parent’s Cybersafety Checklist for Back To School
Sometimes I am not sure which is more stressful – Christmas, or getting kids ready for the school year. So...
Raising Kids in a Digital World: Top Takeaways from Our 2017 Connected Family Survey
Today’s world is certainly a digital one. Everything, from the stores where we shop to the messages we send to...
Two Attacks On Mobile Banking Are Back
It feels as through every day, a new app is released that makes it easier to pay for something through...
Trends: Adult Cyberbulling is No Laughing Matter
This past year is one for the digital record books. As incredible as it sounds, adults — not those impulsive,...
With Release of Windows 10, Questions About BitLocker Arise Again
This post was written by Ted Pan. For those of you who were around during the original release of Microsoft’s...
Spotlight on Shamoon
Our analysis this month has pointed to Shamoon emerging in the Middle East. We have recently seen a number of...
Manage your data this Data Privacy Day
You know when Valentine’s Day is, and on which day Friendship Day falls, but do you know the day in...
McAfee Displacement Products Create a Trip of a Lifetime
This blog was written by Richard Steranka. In the second half of 2016, we challenged our Platinum and Gold partners...
How Much Control Do You Really Have Over Your Family’s Connected Life?
If you took an inventory of your family’s connected devices, would you have three or four devices, or would it...
Analyzing CVE-2016-9311: NTPD Vulnerability Can Lead to Denial of Service
The network time protocol synchronizes time across various devices on a network. The network time protocol daemon (NTPD) is an...
The 5-Minute Parent’s Guide to Instagram
If you’re a tween or even a teen, it’s all about Instagram. As my 13 year old puts it so...
Tackling Threats at Super Bowl 51
When it comes to the Super Bowl, football and food are the first things that come to mind—not cyberthreats. But...
Connected Relationships: A Love Affair with Technology
Love is in the air, and in our technology as well. At least, that is what the survey says—specifically, a...
iOS Users Aren’t So Immune to Threats After All
10 years ago, Fergie and Gwen Stefani were at the top of the charts, and Juno had just been...
