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Privacy & Identity Protection
Tax Season Email Scam Aims to Steal from Uncle Sam
Every year around tax season, we see a huge spike in tax-related social engineering attacks. Social engineering...Mar 18, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Travnet Trojan Could Be Part of APT Campaign
This blog post was written by Vikas Taneja. Attackers use all kinds of attack vectors to steal...Mar 14, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
An Overview of Messaging Botnets
In the quarterly McAfee Threats Reports we offer our readers some charts on the prevalence of messaging...Mar 08, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Android Malware Goes Bollywood
We already know that mobile malware is growing at a fantastic rate, but we now see a...Mar 07, 2013 | 2 MIN READ
Privacy & Identity Protection
What is a Botnet?
The word botnet or bot is short for robot network. A botnet is a group of Internet-connected...Mar 07, 2013 | 2 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Malware Behaves Oddly in Automated Analysis Environment
While testing malware recently, we got some logs from our automated analysis system showing a few samples...Mar 06, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
Privacy & Identity Protection
Just One of Many Internet Scams
A good friend of mine called me recently to ask what I knew about scams from online...Feb 22, 2013 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee News
Top 5 Reasons To Participate in the McAfee Virtual Sales Kickoff
In 2013 we remain committed to investing in, growing with and optimizing for you, our channel partners....Feb 18, 2013 | < 1 MIN READ
Family Safety
This Valentine’s Day, Don’t Just Think About “Lip lock” But Give “Data Lock” A Thought Too
This Valentine’s Day, Don’t Just Think About “Lip lock” But Give “Data Lock” A Thought Too Love...Feb 13, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
Internet Security
Love, Relationships, and #SextRegret: It’s Time to Take Back the Web
What would you do if someone threatened to post risqué photos of you on the Internet? According...Feb 04, 2013 | 3 MIN READ
McAfee Labs
Labs Paper Looks ‘Inside the World of the Citadel Trojan’
Zeus “banking” malware and its variants have been making headlines in recent months. One variant, the Citadel...Jan 31, 2013 | 4 MIN READ
Mobile Security
Apps Tracking Your Location: Friendly or Creepy?
There is no denying the fact that the world has gone wireless. With the explosion of smartphones...Jan 25, 2013 | 4 MIN READ