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How Hackers Use Popular Shows to Infect Your Devices
If there’s one reasonable measurement of how popular a television series has become, it’s how often it’s illegally downloaded online....
7 Tips to Boost Your Family Goal Setting for 2015
To catch a vision for your family in the year ahead first requires a brief look back. What worked in...
2014: Security Year in Review
From the Heartbleed bug to large-scale (and highly publicized) data breaches, Shellshock to mobile threats—2014 did not leave us wanting...
5 Priceless Gifts You Already Give Your Kids Every Day
If you are like me, the holidays usher in an assortment of feelings—some warm and fuzzy and some not...
Slow File Infector Spies on Victims
Sourabh Kadam contributed to this blog. In the middle of 2012 McAfee Labs observed the complex malware XDocCrypt infecting documents,...
What is Ransomware?
Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...
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...
