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Ramnit Malware Creates FTP Network From Victims’ Computers
This blog post was written by Vikas Taneja. The Ramnit worm appeared in 2010. Within a year more than eight...
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...
RagnarLocker Ransomware Threatens to Release Confidential Information
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The RagnarLocker ransomware first appeared in the wild at the end of December 2019 as part of a...
Quizzes and Other Identity Theft Schemes to Avoid on Social Media
Before you take the fun-looking quiz that popped up in your social media feed, think twice. The person holding the answers may be a hacker. Where...
Quick, it’s Time to Uninstall QuickTime for Windows!
This blog post was written by Bruce Snell. Last week the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (known as US-CERT)...
Quarterly Threat Report: What Do the Numbers Mean to Me?
This blog post was written by Bruce Snell. Every quarter, the team at McAfee Labs releases a threats report detailing...
Quarian Group Targets Victims With Spearphishing Attacks
This blog post was written by Rahul Mohandas. The current generation of targeted attacks are getting more sophisticated and evasive....
Quality Over Quantity: the Counter-Intuitive GenAI Key
It’s been almost two years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, driving increased mainstream awareness of and access to Generative AI tools....
Quad Messaging App — The New Facebook on Campus
College—it’s not just a time for growing into the responsible individual you most assuredly will become, it’s also a time...
Q&A: What is ‘Path’ and Is It Safe for My Child?
Q: I overheard my son telling his friend to message him on Path. What is Path and should I be...
Q&A with Software QA Manager: How McAfee Empowers Me to Shape the Future
By Simon, Software QA Manager Simon is a Software Quality Assurance Manager at the McAfee Aylesbury office. He joined the...
Putting Protection to The Test
Putting Protection to The Test This year has thrown a lot of challenges at us, and our digital lives were...
Protecting Yourself in the Wake of the Robinhood Data Breach
The Robinhood trading platform recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the information of millions of its customers. News of the attack was released on Monday, November 8th along with word the...
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...
Protecting Your Privacy on Social Media
Social media sites are made for sharing, so protecting your privacy sometimes comes as an afterthought. But, the kind of...
Protecting Your Personal Identity During Holidays
December is finally upon us, which means the holidays are coming. While we’ll all be thinking about others during this...
Protecting Your Parents from Scams with Our New Family Plans
As people get into their 70s, they stand to lose more to fraud than any other age group—which makes a...
Protecting the Universal Remote Control of Your Life—Your Smartphone
Aside from using it for calls and texting, we use our smartphones for plenty of things. We’re sending money with...
