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Next Targets for Cybercriminals: the Long Term (Part 2)
In the previous post in this series, I outlined how cybercriminals will use the holiday season to victimize unwary consumers...
How to Build Up Critical Thinking in Your Digital Kids
“The environment teaches.” ~John Dewey It’s no longer an option; critical thinking has become a skill kids must learn to...
Digging Into a Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: CVE-2016-7255
This blog was written by Stanley Zhu. The Windows kernel privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 has received a lot of media...
Medical IoT Manufacturers Given Guidelines on Lifelong Devices Security, Courtesy of FDA
2016 appears to have one more gift for us before calling it a year, and this time it involves both...
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...
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...
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...
Parent Alert: Could Your Child be Plagiarizing Homework?
“Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.” ~Lady Marguerite Blessington Most of us would gasp...
