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2023’s Top 5 App Security Tips
Happy National App Day! No, we don’t mean apps of the mozzarella stick and potato skin variety, but your mobile...
A PayPal Email Scam Is Making the Rounds: Here’s How to Identify and Avoid It
Payment applications make splitting restaurant bills, taxi fares, and household expenses so much easier. Without having to tally totals at...
Know Your Superpower: Brenda’s McAfee Journey
Our How I Got Here series spotlights the stories of McAfee team members who have successfully grown their careers. Read more about...
How to Browse Privately on Your Phone
Your phone is likely a daily companion, giving you access to work emails, chats with friends, weather reports, and more...
The Best Way To Protect Your Online Identity
For many Aussies, identity theft was always something that happened to other people. People on TV, usually. But the recent...
My Top Tips To Help Your Family Stay Safe Online This Holiday Period
‘It’s the most wonderful time of year’ – we’ve all heard the jingles and read the slogans. But the holiday...
Myth-busting Antivirus Software Assumptions
The number of new viruses grows every day. In fact, McAfee registers an average of 1.1 million new malicious programs...
Everything You Need to Know About Identity Remediation
There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it: A stolen identity creates a mess. Once they have a few...
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...
Start the New Year Right With This 3-Step Digital Detox
Pledging to follow healthier habits is consistently the most popular new year’s resolution. That January 1st promise looks different to...
How To Recognize An Online Scam
It’s been a particularly busy and colourful week, scam-wise in our household. Between 4 family members, we’ve received almost 20...
How to Protect Your Credit Score
It has a way of sneaking up on you. Credit theft and fraud. Maybe it’s happened to you. Maybe it’s...
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...
40 Years of the Internet – Tips for Staying Safe Online in 2023
Authored by Vonny Gamot The official 40th birthday of the internet serves as a timely reminder that while it is...
The Case for Your Security at CES 2023
As technology weaves itself into our lives in new and unexpected ways, some of it will get quite personal and...
New Year, New You: Start Fresh With McAfee Protection Score
Are you an online oversharer? Do you give your full birthday to all your online shopping accounts? Have a few...
How To Distinguish Between Online Protection Software and Antivirus
Authored by Dennis Pang Online protection software. Antivirus. The two words get used interchangeably often enough. But sure enough, they’re...
3 Tools to Round Out Your Privacy Protection Toolbox
It’s common practice to pull down the window shades at night. Homeowners invest in high fences. You may even cover...
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...
The PayPal Breach – Who Was Affected and How You Can Protect Yourself
PayPal recently notified thousands of its customers that their accounts were breached by hackers, leaving their Social Security Numbers and...
How To Recover Your Identity After It Has Been Stolen
It’s been like this from the start—wherever people shop, do business, or simply gather together, you’ll find thieves in the...
Can Apple Macs get Viruses?
It’s a long-standing question. Can Apple computers get viruses? While Apple does go to great lengths to keep all its...
The Rise and Risks of AI Art Apps
Authored by Fernando Ruiz The popularity of AI-based mobile applications that can create artistic images based on pictures, such as...
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...
How a Close Relative Lost $100,000 to an Elder Scam
Written by James Schmidt Editor’s Note: We often speak of online scams in our blogs, ones that cost victims hundreds...
McAfee+ Family Plans: The Right Protection for the Right People—Your People
Knowing the whole family is protected online is a great feeling—that they’re safe from online scams, inappropriate content, and people...
Safer Internet Day: Through a Parent’s Eyes
“Together for a better internet.” That’s the rallying cry of this year’s Safer Internet Day, and it’s one we’re happy...
