Featured Blogs
What Are the Risks of Geo-Location?
Using your mobile’s built-in global positioning system (GPS) functionality allows location-based services (or geo-location) to locate and publish information about...
Spy? Where? Mobile Spyware Hiding Right Under Your Nose
Some days it feels like the whole world is going mobile. We tweet, we text, we browse the world from...
The Dilemma of Anonymity and Dangers of Ask.fm
Anonymity affords a precarious, irresistible power to teens online. Ask.fm is one app that’s exploding in popularity by allowing users...
Android App Contains Windows Worm
When developers are unaware of security they open the door to threats against their customers and users. We are not...
Java Back Door Acts as Bot
The current threat landscape is often driven by web-based malware and exploit kits that are regularly updated with newly found...
Bitcoin Miners Use AutoIt-Complied Programs With Antianalysis Code
Last year, my colleague Itai Liba blogged about the association between malware and AutoIt, a very convenient environment for malware...
Japanese One-Click Scammers Abuse Mobile Traffic Exchange Service
McAfee has been monitoring and reporting extensively on one-click-fraud malware for Android in Japan this year. These attacks, primarily on...
Cheating and Bullying: It’s a Bigger Problem than You Think!
The whole purpose of your “youth” is to grow and learn. It’s time to take in lots of information, so...
Introducing App Reputation for Android Apps
McAfee has always been in the forefront of finding new ways to secure our customers against threats and risks posed...
5 (Kind) Reminders for Overly Nosy Parents
Last night I sat next to my teenage son as he played video games. It did not take long before...
