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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...
From Military Kid to Product Marketing: My McAfee Journey
Employee Spotlight: Meet Jovohn! From military beginnings to mobile security champion, meet Jovohn, our passionate Product Marketer and MAHC President....
From Internet to Internet of Things
Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee set out to accomplish an ambitious idea – the World Wide Web. While most of...
From Email to RAT: Deciphering a VB Script-Driven Campaign
Authored by Preksha Saxena and Yashvi Shah McAfee Labs has been tracking a sophisticated VBS campaign characterized by obfuscated Visual...
From Election Day to Inauguration: How Cybersecurity Safeguards Democracy
Inauguration Day has come and gone, and the peaceful transfer of power couldn’t have happened without the intricate systems that...
From Cyberbullying to AI-Generated Content – McAfee’s Research Reveals the Shocking Risks
The landscape of online threats targeting children has evolved into a complex web of dangers that extend far beyond simple...
From Building Control to Damage Control: A Case Study in Industrial Security Ft. Delta
Management. Control. It seems that you can’t stick five people in a room together without one of them trying to...
Frequently Asked Questions About Identity Theft
The more you know about identity theft, the better prepared you will be to prevent it from happening to you. Here are some commonly asked questions about identity theft.
Frequent Fortnite Player? 4 Tips to Combat the New Attack on User Accounts
Epic Games’ Fortnite has risen in popularity rapidly since its debut, and cybercriminals have leveraged that popularity to enact a handful...
French Magazine Suffers Web Hack, Firebombing
To celebrate the recent victory of the Tunisian Islamist party, the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” published a special issue...
Free Wi-Fi in the Big Apple
This blog was written by Bruce Snell. I was in New York City last June and had a morning free...
Free Ransomware Available on Dark Web
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team recently analyzed a ransomware-as-a-service threat that is available for free and without registration. This malware...
Fraudulent Apps that Automatically Charge you Money Spotted in Google Play
Google’s Android operating system has been a boon for the average consumer. No other operating system has given so much...
Fraudulent Adult Dating Services Turn 10 Years Old, Still Evolving
McAfee Mobile Research monitors adult one-click-fraud applications on Google Play that are targeted at Japanese users. Although the attackers appeared...
Frankenstein Data: How Data Brokers Stitch Together—and Sell—Your Digital Self
Your digital life is being stitched together—one purchase, one search, one swipe at a time. Data brokers collect and combine...
France Gets Hit with Its Largest Data Breach Ever — What You Need to Know
Two massive data breaches in France have impacted roughly half the nation’s population. The data of an estimated 33 million...
Four Ways To Use AI Responsibly
Are you skeptical about mainstream artificial intelligence? Or are you all in on AI and use it all day, every...
Four of the coolest jobs in cybersecurity
This blog post was written by Nick Viney. With the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and data...
Fortnite: Why Kids Love It and What Parents Need to Know
Fortnite: Battle Royale is the hottest video game for kids right now. More than 125 million people have downloaded...
Fortnite Impersonation Scams: A No-Nonsense Parent Guide
Even years after its release, Fortnite still stands as the online “battle royale” game of choice, with millions of younger...
Forgot Where You Were Yesterday? Google Has You Covered.
Last Tuesday, Google introduced Your Timeline for its Google Map website and Android devices. Your Timeline acts as a documentarian...
For some, accounting is more than just spreadsheets! Vernon’s McAfee Journey
Vernon has been our Manager of Technical Accounting for more than two years, but that doesn’t mean he’s busy with...
FOMO: How to Help Digital Kids Overcome the Feeling of Missing Out
What happens when you give hundreds of teenagers smartphones and unlimited access to chat apps and social networks 24/7? A...
Focus on Real Friends This Friendship Day
I walked into my niece’s room and found her busy making colourful bands. “What are these for?” I asked. “Friendship...
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...
Flashlight App Steals Data, Leaves Users in Dark
Ahh, the good old days—when flashlights were simple, handheld devices, used to help light your way… Not light producing mobile...
Five-Year-Old Boy Hacks His Xbox One
For most five year-olds, rule breaking usually consists of jumping in puddles and staying up past bedtime. Not so, for...
