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‘No One Likes You’: And the Other Hurtful Ways Kids Bully One Another Online
One of the most wounding things a young person can hear is “No one likes you.” Most likely because that...
KRACK Hack Threatens Wi-Fi Security – What it Means for You
If you grew up before, or even during the 90s, you were familiar with a world of cords. A cord...
How KRACK Threatens Wi-Fi’s Security Underpinnings and What It Means for You
If you grew up before, or even during the 90s, you were familiar with a world of cords. A cord...
McAfee Honors 19 Partners with Awards for Excellence in Security
Today in Las Vegas, we recognized stand out performance by handing out our annual partner awards. This year, 19 partners...
Tips for Effective Threat Hunting
This blog was co-written by Ramnath Venugopalan. In May, McAfee surveyed more than 700 IT and security professionals around the...
McAfee Customer Success Group Puts Customers at the Core
To Our Valued Customers: Allow me to introduce myself. I am Aneel Jaeel, the new leader of the McAfee Customer...
KRACKs Against Wi-Fi Serious But Not End of the World
This blog was written by Brook Schoenfield. On October 12, researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced a set of Wi-Fi attacks that...
Infected Minecraft Apps Could Potentially Turn Over 2M Android Devices Into a Botnet Army
We all love a good game, especially those that allow us to create and innovate with the touch of our...
ROCA: Which Key-Pair Attacks Are Credible?
This blog was co-written by Brook Schoenfield. In the past two weeks, we have seen two big encryption issues arise:...
KRACKs: Five Observations on WPA Authentication Vulnerability
KRACKs are in the news. McAfee has already discussed these key reinstallation attacks that affect Wi-Fi setups in two posts:...
What To Do If Your Data Is Stolen
If you’re like most people, you share your personal information with a number of companies and service providers, from banks...
Conversation Starters: Keep Your Kids Safe on the Road, at School, and Online
Making “safety” a priority for kids is about as exciting as watching the snow melt on a snow day. So...
Meet IoT_reaper: The New Malware Building a Massive Botnet Army
WannaCry, Petya, the Dyn distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack – all now infamous cyberattacks that have defined the modern threat landscape....
‘BadRabbit’ Ransomware Burrows Into Russia, Ukraine
This post was researched and written by Christiaan Beek, Tim Hux, David Marcus, Charles McFarland, Douglas McKee, and Raj Samani. McAfee...
Analyzing Microsoft Office Zero-Day Exploit CVE-2017-11826
McAfee Labs has performed frequent analyses of Office-related threats over the years: In 2015, we presented research on the Office...
Code Execution Technique Takes Advantage of Dynamic Data Exchange
Email phishing campaigns are a popular social engineering technique among hackers. The idea is simple: Craft an email that looks...
Configuring McAfee ENS and VSE to Prevent Macroless Code Execution in Office Apps
Microsoft Office macros are a popular method of distributing malware. Users can defend themselves against macro attacks by disabling macros....
Inclusion Drives Innovation: An Employee’s Perspective on Being Differently Abled
By Karla Jackson, Digital Media Specialist, McAfee “With Our People at The Heart, We Are McAfee.” If you make your...
Expiro Malware Is Back and Even Harder to Remove
File infector malware adds malicious code to current files. This makes removal tricky because deleting infections results in the loss...
Risky Apps, Jail Time for Parents of Bullies, and More Family Safety News
If you haven’t been able to skim the family safety headlines lately — no worries. We’ve plucked a few stories...
Celebrating Halloween – McAfee Style
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Two weeks ago, I stepped into the McAfee Plano office with a mixture...
Secret Selfies: iPhone Apps Can Take Pictures and Videos of You Without Your Knowledge
“Let’s take a selfie” has become quite the popular request in 2017. Most everyone captures the occasional self-portrait using the...
Pirate Versions of Popular Apps Infiltrate Google Play via Virtualization
The McAfee Mobile Research team recently found pirated applications of popular apps distributed on the Google Play store. A pirated...
Be a Social Media-Savvy Parent For Your Kids
If your kids are ready to join the social media bandwagon, but you are completely lost when it comes to...
Massive Malaysian Data Breach Compromises Over 46 Million Phone Numbers
There are data breaches that impact an entire customer group, or even a certain state. And then there are data...
Self-Signed Certificates Can Be Secure, So Why Ban Them?
This blog was co-written by Brook Schoenfield and Ramnath Venugopalan. In many organizations the use of self-signed certificates is forbidden...
Kids Glued to YouTube? Here are 7 Ways to Keep them Safe While Having Fun
I spend a lot of time on YouTube. I watch health, parenting, and cooking videos until my eyes cross. And...
