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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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Check Out the McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrity 2020

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Cheating and Bullying: It’s a Bigger Problem than You Think!

The whole purpose of your “youth” is to grow and learn. It’s time to take in lots of information, so...

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Cheat Codes to Digital Parenting

As digital immigrants, I have seen a lot of my friends in a constant dilemma/struggle about bringing up children in...

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ChatGPT: A Scammer’s Newest Tool

ChatGPT: Everyone’s favorite chatbot/writer’s-block buster/ridiculous short story creator is skyrocketing in fame. 1 In fact, the AI-generated content “masterpieces” (by...

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ChatGPT’s Impact on Privacy and How to Protect Yourself

How To Manage Your Privacy When Using ChatGPT or Other Generative AI Love it or hate it, generative artificial intelligence...

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Chat Friend Finder Apps on Google Play Leak Personal Information

Somewhat controversial websites or apps called chat friend finders, or ID BBS (Bulletin Board System) are spreading widely in Japan....

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Chapter Preview: It All Starts with Your Personal Data Lake

Once, not long ago, data was nestled in paper files or stored on isolated computer networks, housed in glassed-off, air-conditioned...

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Chapter Preview: Birth to Age 2 – First Footprints

When your baby is on the way, their privacy and digital security is probably the last thing you have on...

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Chapter Preview: Ages 2 to 10 – The Formative Years

As our children venture into toddlerhood, they start to test us a bit. They tug at the tethers we create...

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Chapter Preview: Ages 11 to 17 – From Tweens to Teens

For anyone who asks what happens during the tween through teen years, the best answer is probably, “What doesn’t happen?!”...

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Changing Passwords in a Post Heartbleed Bug World

From a home security standpoint, the main gatekeeper is the house key. It’s small, portable and fairly adept at keeping...

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Change Your Password. World Password Day is 7 May!

We also say we want to be safe online. Yet sometimes our actions betray our words—especially if we’re using simple,...

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Chameleon: the Wi-Fi Virus That Hides in Plain Sight & Spreads Like a Cold

Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Liverpool successfully tested a new virus with a terrifying potential. It...

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CES 2021: Highlights From the “Cleanest” Show Yet!

Typically, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gives us a sense of where technology is going in the future. However,...

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Cerber Ransomware Updates Configuration File

This blog post was written by Sudhanshu Dubey. McAfee Labs has recently analyzed Version 2 of Cerber, one of the...

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Cerber Ransomware Now Hunts for Databases

  Cerber is one of the most popular ransomware packages. It has upgraded itself to also target databases. It is...

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Cerber Ransomware Evades Detection With Many Components

This blog was co-written by Sapna Juneja. Cerber is a quickly evolving type of malware called crypto-ransomware. Cerber encrypts files...

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Celebrities Are Lures For Scammers

Through this guide, we aim to shed light on how scammers take advantage of the global fascination with celebrities to target their potential victims.

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Celebrating our partners across EMEA

This blog was written by David Small. Last week, our EMEA Channel Partner Summit took place in Mallorca. This year’s...

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Celebrating multi-national cultures this Hispanic Heritage Month

Do you know the difference between Hispanic and Latino? What about the traditions that are important parts of the Hispanic...

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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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Celebrating Halloween – McAfee Style

By Dawson McPherson, Talent & Communications Coordinator Two weeks ago, I stepped into the McAfee Plano office with a mixture...

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Celebrate World Wide Web Day: The Evolution of Web Safety

The World Wide Web, invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, has undoubtedly made our lives more convenient in so many...

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Celebrate National Download Day With This Safe Downloading Checklist

Happy Download Day! (Yes, there’s a day for that.) Today is an excellent day to share downloading best practices to...

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Celebrate International Women’s Day By Embracing a Career in Technology

This Sunday, we celebrate International Women’s Day, a global day for championing the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of...

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CelebGate: a Long, Dangerous List of Celebrities

During the past few days, the media has been abuzz with the massive celebrity photo leak nicknamed CelebGate 2014. The...

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Catch Phish If You Can

There are some movies you can watch over and over again. For me, it’s “Catch Me If You Can,” Steven...

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