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This Week in Scams: Petco Breach Warning, and Watch Out for Fake Federal Calls
Dec 12, 2025 | 8 MIN READ
Sensitive Data on 3 Million Facebook Users Potentially Exposed by Suspended App
From Facebook to Twitter and now back to Facebook – the past few months have seen some...
Facebook Messenger Malware FacexWorm Steals Passwords and Mines for Cryptocurrency
Facebook Messenger, a feature included within the popular social media network, has grown to become a widely-used...
Bug Alert! All 330 Million Twitter Users Need to Change Their Passwords Immediately
Tweet, tweet! No, that’s not a bird you’re hearing outside your window, that’s Twitter kindly reminding you...
The Past, Present, and Future of Password Security
In simpler times, passwords broke down physical barriers – they allowed people into secret gatherings, opened safes,...
World Password Day – Stop Worrying, Start Using A Password Manager
“Open Sesame”! Most of us have grown up hearing these magic words, the secret password, that know...
Seven Android Apps Infected With Adware, Downloaded Over 500,000 Times
The amount we use our apps and the amount of apps we use has shown no signs...
Indians Are Increasingly Realising Nothing Said Online Is Private
The world is becoming increasingly connected- with locks for you home controlled on your smartphone; CCTV cameras...
Together We Are Forming a Powerful Alliance Against the Bad Guys
McAfee Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) is a technology ecosystem designed to assemble the world’s leading security innovations...
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...
Indian Digital Citizens Need to Better Balance Their Device Use and Manage Online Safety
As Bryan Adams croons in the background (Everything I do) I do it for you…. and you...
How McAfee Embedded Security Helps Medical Device Manufacturers
The blog was written by Tom Moore. Like other Internet of Things (IoT) devices, medical equipment is...
McAfee Shares Threat Predictions For 2018 – As the Saying Goes, Forewarned is Forearmed
2017 has drawn to a close and phew, what a year it has been in the digital...
