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McAfee Labs
If You Deploy Only Antivirus, It Will Cost You More and Make You Less Secure
Everyone’s looking to shave their IT budgets, manage fewer vendors and streamline. The plethora of low cost...Jan 04, 2013 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
YouTube Video Scam Targets Facebook Users
Be advised cybercriminals are at it again, leveraging the popularity of Facebook and YouTube to scam consumers.We...Jan 03, 2013 | 5 MIN READ
Privacy & Identity Protection
W32/Autorun Worm: A Nasty Bug for Your Computer
What do you think of when you hear the word “malware”? Most people think of the general...Dec 13, 2012 | 4 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
New Labs Report: ‘Analyzing Project Blitzkrieg’
Project Blitzkrieg, a current attack on US financial institutions, got a lot of media attention following a...Dec 13, 2012 | 2 MIN READ
Family Safety
Secret Lives of Indian Teens- A McAfee Survey
“So where’s your daughter?” “Oh, she is in her room, on the net,” replied the indulgent Mother....Dec 11, 2012 | 4 MIN READ
Mobile Security
App Lock: The Security System for Unprotected Mobile Apps
Lock: To fasten, to make secure, to confine or exclude by. To fix in place so that...Dec 10, 2012 | 3 MIN READ
Family Safety
10 Tips to Safe Online Shopping
How times have changed. I can remember when Christmas didn’t start until after Thanksgiving—not before Halloween as...Nov 21, 2012 | 4 MIN READ
Family Safety
The Top 12 Scams Of Christmas To Watch Out For
McAfee Latest 2012 Holiday-Related Online Scams and Security Tips for Consumers The holidays are just around the...Nov 12, 2012 | 11 MIN READ
Privacy & Identity Protection
Hack the Vote: Pros and Cons of Electronic Voting
After 17 months and billions in campaign spending, it was up to the scores of American people...Nov 07, 2012 | 5 MIN READ
Mobile Security
Actress Sofia Vergara’s Personal Photos Hacked or Stolen Via Mobile
In my line of work I get emails such as this one: “Hi Robert, I’m not sure...Oct 29, 2012 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Update: NGRBot Posing as Skype Drops Ransomware With Fake McAfee Logo
This blog was updated on October 15. See the end of this file. We recently received a...Oct 12, 2012 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Multiplatform Fake AV Uses Different GUIs
Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to...Oct 11, 2012 | 4 MIN READ