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Floki Bot a Sensation With International Cybercriminals
Floki Bot, new financial malware, is popular with English-, Portuguese-, and Russian-speaking underground criminal markets, winning over cybercriminals with new...
Next Targets for Cybercriminals: the Short Term (Part 1)
Knowing what cybercriminals are targeting today is easy. Their attacks are loud, impactful, and have the elegance of a...
How To Manage Screen Time These Holidays
Gosh I love December. The kids are on school holidays, the homework has finished and work is quietening down. Bliss...
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...
Securing Today’s Connected Home
When thinking of cyber threats, malware, phishing, and data breaches typically come to mind. But as 2016 has shown us,...
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...
