Timeless Principles to Help Your Child Develop Social Superpowers
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ~ Dale Carnegie Each year it’s my tradition to re-read a handful of books that continue to shape my perspective. One ...
Feeling Overwhelmed, Parents? Here’s Your Online Safety Cheat Sheet
Can we just get an extra five hours tacked onto each day so we can stay on top of our kid’s online activity? That’s the rhetorical question most parents carry around unspoken. With all the to-dos of parenting, isn’t there a shortcut on all that social media stuff we don’t ...
Parent Alert: Could Your Child be Plagiarizing Homework?
“Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.” ~Lady Marguerite Blessington Most of us would gasp if we received a call that our child cheated on his or her Algebra test by looking at another student’s paper. But did you know there’s another form of cheating ...
Raising Kids in a Digital World: Top Takeaways from Our 2017 Connected Family Survey
Today’s world is certainly a digital one. Everything, from the stores where we shop to the messages we send to one another, interacts with the internet in some fashion—and sometimes in ways that aren’t exactly secure. In fact, risky interactions with the Web can even extend to the homes and ...
Send Your Kids Back to School with Mobile Safety in Mind
The days are getting shorter and your bags are (finally) unpacked from the annual family vacation. Summer is officially coming to an end. For kids, nothing is more bittersweet than switching gears from hot days filled with play dates and summer camps to long school days and early mornings. For ...
La importancia del Informe de Investigación de Violación de Datos
Cada año Verizon da a conocer su Informe de Investigación de Violación de Datos (DBIR), un informe que comparte datos de incidentes a lo largo del año. Verizon recopila este documento con información de 70 organizaciones (incluyendo McAfee), analizando cerca de 80,000 casos individuales y más de 2,000 violaciones confirmadas ...
Love, Trust and Text Messages in the Digital Age
Roses are red, violets are blue, but does your security matter to your loved one too? Okay, so maybe my rhyme needs a little work, but the substance is there: when we share personal information in real life, even with loved ones, we run the risk of exposing our most ...
McAfee Launches New Digital Safety Program at the 2014 Committee for Economic Development Fall Policy Conference
This week I had the privilege of visiting Washington, D.C., to attend the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Fall Policy Conference. The annual event invites policymakers, educators and industry leaders to come together and discuss some of the most pressing economic issues facing our country. This year, cybersecurity was all ...
