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Supporting Our Military Veterans at McAfee
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Over the past week, McAfee employees around the world paused to recognize and...
Warning: Lokibot Is Looking to Access Your Android
This time of year is always busy for me. Between pre-holiday online shopping, and the push to connect with friends...
A Cybersecurity Carol: Key Takeaways From This Year’s Most Hackable Holiday Gifts
Now, in its third year, the McAfee Most Hackable Holiday Gifts survey is here again to examine how consumers approach device security around the holidays, and what they need to stay secure while staying in the yuletide sprit. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from McAfee’s Most ...
#WorldKindnessDay: How to Help Kids Tap into their Superpower of Being Kind
“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher, American writer,...
Why Social Engineering is a Scammer’s Secret Weapon
Criminals and scammers love to trick, deceive and manipulate their victims into handing over sensitive information, and money. This kind...
McAfee Warriors – Building a Community Inclusive of Military Veterans
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator As we make our way into the month of November, it’s easy to...
STEM – How and Why To Get Your Daughter Involved
In 1990, the buzz around STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) just didn’t exist. When I was doing my HSC,...
Marcher Malware Uses Both Credential and Credit Card Phishing to Steal Financial Data
Actors turned models turned singers — pretty much the definition of a “triple threat” in the entertainment industry. However, the...
Threat Group APT28 Slips Office Malware into Doc Citing NYC Terror Attack
This blog post was co-written by Michael Rea. During our monitoring of activities around the APT28 threat group, McAfee Advanced...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Celebrating Halloween – McAfee Style
By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Two weeks ago, I stepped into the McAfee Plano office with a mixture...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
‘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...
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....
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...
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...
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:...
