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McAfee Adds Flash Exploit Detection to NSP 8.2
Adobe Flash vulnerabilities and exploits have worried users and security professionals for many years. The situation today remains serious. A...
InstallCube: How Russian Programmers Turn Adware Into Cash
We often observe applications bundled with ad-displaying programs to generate revenue for those products. These are not necessarily unethical, but...
WhatsApp with End-to-End Encryption?
Throughout the past year, many mobile messaging apps have come under fire for inherent security vulnerabilities. This month, WhatsApp (one...
Should You Use Near-Field Communications?
Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you’d have? I’ve always wanted to send messages and ideas with my...
Doxxing, The Internet and How You Can Lock Down Your Data
There exists, in this world of ours, a term describing the public release of a person’s identity against their will...
What is Pharming?
. For a lot of kids today, mash-ups are all the rage—whether it’s combining two videos, two songs, or two...
Youth & Social Media
The digital world is here to stay. The youth are growing up with and making internet technologies, such as social...
Is This Your Photo? No, It’s SMS Spam With Mobile Malware
One of the most important concerns of Internet users is privacy. For this reason one of the most effective phishing...
At McAfee, Protecting Customers Takes Precedence Over Seeking Headlines
One question I often hear is “When will McAfee publish a report on the latest threat?” It seems to be...
Win32/Syndicasec Used In Targeted Attacks Against Indian Organizations
During the last couple of months, we’ve observed several RTF exploits that target Indian organizations. The first RTF exploit was...
McAfee’s New Digital Safety Program at the 2014 CED Fall Policy Conferencece
This week I had the privilege of visiting Washington, D.C., to attend the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Fall Policy...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day
This is the second part of our analysis of the Sandworm OLE zero-day vulnerability and the MS14-060 patch bypass. Check out...
Exploit Kits Improve Evasion Techniques
Exploit kits are toolkits that malicious developers use to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities, targeting web browsers and programs that...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day, the Root Cause
On October 21, we warned the public that a new exploitation method could bypass Microsoft’s official patch (MS14-060, KB3000869) for...
Chinese Trojan Hooks Macs, iPhones
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security”–Benjamin Franklin A recent threat targeting Chinese users of Mac OS X and...
App Inventor Enables the Easy Creation of Malicious Apps
In today’s increasingly connected society, heaps of new mobile apps are cropping up every day. It no longer takes a...
What Is a Trojan Horse?
One of history’s great literary classics is Homer’s Iliad, which tells the story of the Trojan horse—the wooden horse that...
New Exploit of Sandworm Zero-Day Could Bypass Official Patch
Update of October 25: Some comments posted after we published this report suggest that our proof-of-concept exploit will trigger the...
What is Criminal Identity Theft?
Identity theft gets all kinds of buzz in the news. It’s not hard to see why—in 2012, over 16.6 million...
Android’s CyanogenMod Vulnerable to Zero-Day Threat
Have you installed CyanogenMod on your Android device? If yes, you’re likely vulnerable to a newly discovered zero-day threat (an...
Banks are Using Biometric Measures to Protect Against Fraud
When thinking about biometric security, one might picture Mission Impossible-like retinal scanning or fingerprint reading technology a la the iPhone...
Emma Watson Video Scam: Hackers Use Celeb’s Popularity to Unleash Viruses
Following the announcement of the 2014 Most Dangerous Celebrities™ earlier this month, our senses have been heightened to scams on...
What is Browser Hijacking?
Imagine it. You sit down at your computer about to do your daily perusal of Buzzfeed or check out The...
The Hacker’s New Best Friend Could be Your USB Port
It’s tiny and portable, yet perfect for storing large items. I’m talking about the good ol’ Universal Serial Bus (a.k.a...
What’s Your Click IQ?
The recent celebrity photo hacks are an unfortunate reminder of how devastating or embarrassing it can be to have your...
Have You Had the ‘Dangerous Celebrity’ Talk with Your Kids?
By now hopefully you’ve had several critical conversations with your child about the good, the bad, and the risky of...
Digital Dares: Dumb Kids with Smart Phones
Do you remember the guy or girl in high school who always took things just a little too far? If...
