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McAfee’s New Privacy & Identity Guard Launches at Staples Stores
Your privacy means everything. And your identity too. The launch of McAfee Privacy & Identity Guard will protect them both. ...
McAfee’s Scam Detector Earns Third Major Award Within Months of Launch
McAfee’s Scam Detector has been named a Winner of the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards, presented by the Business Intelligence Group, marking the third major...
McAfee’s Women in Security Offer New Grads Career Insights
Launching your career is an exciting milestone, one that can also be nerve-wracking though. Chances are questions like What should...
Medical Care From Home: Telemedicine and Seniors
For weeks and even months now, millions of us have relied on the internet in ways we haven’t before. We’ve...
Medical IoT Manufacturers Given Guidelines on Lifelong Devices Security, Courtesy of FDA
2016 appears to have one more gift for us before calling it a year, and this time it involves both...
Meet ‘Tox’: Ransomware for the Rest of Us
The packaging of malware and malware-construction kits for cybercrime “consumers” has been a long-running trend. Various turnkey kits that cover...
Meet IoT_reaper: The New Malware Building a Massive Botnet Army
WannaCry, Petya, the Dyn distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack – all now infamous cyberattacks that have defined the modern threat landscape....
Meet KeySweeper, the Stealthy Hardware Recording Your Keystrokes
If there’s one reason why classic James Bond films are so widely enjoyed, it’s because of the unbeatable gadgets. From...
Meet McAfee WebAdvisor’s New Cryptojacking Blocker
totalBy now, you’ve probably heard of cryptocurrency, but you may not know exactly what it is. To put it simply,...
Meltdown and Spectre 101: What to Know About the New Exploits
Between the Blueborne vulnerabilities and the High Sierra Mac flaw – we saw some nasty bugs in 2017. Now, 2018...
Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Done Just Yet – New Malware Uses Exploits to Attack Browsers
We kicked off 2018 with two powerful new exploits: Meltdown and Spectre. And since the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre...
Messenger Rooms: New Video Chat Option is Fun But Has Risks
One of the many things we’ve learned during this season of being homebound is that video chats with friends can...
Microsoft Agrees: Home Users Need More than Antivirus Alone
After years of telling users that Microsoft Security Essentials was enough to protect their PCs from security threats, Microsoft has...
Microsoft Cortana Allows Browser Navigation Without Login: CVE-2018-8253
A locked Windows 10 device with Cortana enabled on the lock screen allows an attacker with physical access to the device to do two kinds of unauthorized browsing.
Microsoft Discovers Malware in Word Files! Here’s What You Need to Know
Microsoft Word is omnipresent. Students use it for their academic careers and office workers, well, office workers pretty much live...
Microsoft Kills Potential Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Office (CVE-2017-8630)
Recently the McAfee IPS Research Team informed Microsoft about a potential remote code execution vulnerability in Office 2016 that McAfee...
Microsoft Urges Customers to Update Windows as Soon as Possible
What happened Microsoft has shipped an emergency security update affecting most Windows users. This update partially addresses a security vulnerability known as PrintNightmare that could allow...
Microsoft’s Edge over Popups (and Google Chrome)
Following up on our previous blog, How to Stop the Popups, McAfee Labs saw a sharp decrease in the number...
