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The Spotify Phishing Scam: How to Reel in This Cyberthreat
Many music-lovers around the world use Spotify to stream all of their favorite tunes. While the music streaming platform is...
McAfee Labs 2019 Threats Predictions Report
Our predictions for 2019 move away from simply providing an assessment on the rise or fall of a particular threat, and instead focus on current rumblings we see in the cybercriminal underground that we expect to grow into trends and subsequently threats in the wild.
First Smartphone: Are You Putting Cyberbullies Under the Tree This Year?
There’s pressure — lots of pressure. And not the typical I-want-a-bike or a doll-that-poops kind of pressure your kids may...
Pay-Per-Install Company Deceptively Floods Market with Unwanted Programs
For the past 18 months, McAfee Labs has been investigating a pay-per-install developer, WakeNet AB, responsible for spreading prevalent adware...
Software Company WakeNet AB Discovered Spreading PUPs to Users
Pay-per-install, or PPI for short, is a type of software program that presents users with third-party offers while they are...
Are Your Online Photos Sharing More Than You Think?
We all share photos online: photos of our kids, photos of our trips, and photos of our meals. We think...
Avoid Falling Prey to Online Shopping Bait This Festive Season
For a moment, I thought this crazy friend of mine had finally lost it. She was staring at her laptop...
Attention Red Dead Redemption 2 Players: Dodge This New Download Scam
Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 has struck a popular chord with many online gamers. Unfortunately, the Western-themed action-adventure game...
Helping Kids Deal with the Digital Rejection of ‘Ghosting’
Rejection is the unspoken risk that is present when we enter into any relationship be it a friendship or a...
12 Days of Hack-mas
2018 was a wild ride when it came to cybersecurity. While some hackers worked to source financial data, others garnered...
‘Operation Sharpshooter’ Targets Global Defense, Critical Infrastructure
This post was written with contributions from the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team...
How To Help Your Teen Organise a Party Online Without It Becoming a Public Spectacle
Teen Parties and Instagram. If your teen is keen to have a party, I can guarantee you that they will...
How to Stay Secure from the Latest Volkswagen Giveaway Scam
You’re scrolling through Facebook and receive a message notification. You open it and see it’s from Volkswagen, claiming that the...
Why I Bring My Authentic Self to Work at McAfee
By Kristol, Sales Account Manager and President, McAfee African Heritage Community If you talked to me when I first started...
Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe
Destructive malware has been employed by adversaries for years. Usually such attacks are carefully targeted and can be motivated by...
Holiday Rush: How to Check Yourself Before Your Wreck Yourself When Shopping Online
It was the last item on my list and Christmas was less than a week away. I was on the...
Can Hackers Make Drones Drop out of the Sky?
While Amazon hasn’t begun using autonomous drones to deliver packages (yet), the aerial technology is becoming more and more popular....
The Year That Was – Cybersecurity Takeaways From 2018
So, what was 2018 like for you? Just another year, a whirlwind of happiness and heartbreaks, or a momentous one...
