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McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021

In this edition, we present new findings in our traditional threat statistical categories – as well as our usual malware, sectors, and vectors – imparted in a new, enhanced digital presentation that’s more easily consumed and interpreted.

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Family Safety

7 Things to Look for on Your Teen’s Instagram

  Over 300 million users post an average of 70 million photos and hit the like button 2.5 billion times...

Family Safety

7 Things Parents Need to Know About the Voxer Voice App

Every five minutes, it seems, a new app comes out but only a handful stick with tweens and teens looking...

Family Safety

7 Strategies to Help Kids Sidestep Digital Friction this Summer

What happens when you mix long summer days with a steady flow of SnapChats, tweets, Instagram feeds, and a non-stop...

Family Safety

7 Soft Skills Critical to Parenting Today’s Digital Kids

  We write a lot about the tech basics—or the hard skills—you need to excel in your superhero job as...

Privacy & Identity Protection

7 Simple Ways to Minimize Risk to Your Family’s Privacy Online

If there is an upside to the torrent of headlines about fake news, intelligence leaks, and email hacking surrounding this...

How To Guides and Tutorials Mobile Security

7 Signs Your Phone Has a Virus and What You Can Do

Our phones store a lot of personal data, including contacts, social media account details, and bank account logins. We use...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

7 Safety Tips to Schooling in a Digital World

This fall, many students are headed back-to-school full time. However, just as workplaces now accommodate for remote work, schools are...

Family Safety

7 Questions to Ask Your Child’s School About Cybersecurity Protocols

Just a few weeks into the new school year and, already, reports of malicious cyberattacks in schools have hit the...

Family Safety

7 Phrases to Help You Steer Clear of Family Conflict this Holiday

When it comes to family and the holidays, even Rudolph had trouble keeping the peace with the other reindeer during...

Family Safety

7 Digital Safety Tips for Teens Filing Their First Tax Returns

Landing that first part-time job in high school and filing your first tax return is a rite of passage for...

Family Safety

7 Creative Ways to Get Your Teen Talking

“Yeah.” “No.” “Nothing.” “Good.” “Okay.” “Whatever.” Do you recognize that notorious bit of prose? It’s the six-word vocabulary list teens...

Family Safety

7 Conversations to Help Build Up Your Family’s Digital Literacy Skills

With the surge of misleading content online, helping your child learn to become an independent thinker is no small task....

Family Safety

7 Common Digital Behaviors that Put Your Family’s Privacy at Risk

It would be impossible nowadays to separate our everyday lives from technology. We travel well-worn, comfortable paths online and engage...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

6 Ways to ‘Just Say No’ to the Time Wasting Habit of Digital Digging

If an app existed that tracked the minutes we spent looking at other people’s social profiles online (much like a...

How To Guides and Tutorials

6 Tips to Help Your Balance Your Children’s Summer Screentime

The pandemic forced many parents into screentime management Bootcamp. We learned quickly that more hours at home require more intention...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

6 Tips to Help Protect and Improve Your Child’s Online Reputation

Not the better choice. Take it down, please. That’s the short, efficient text message I’ve sent more times than I...

How To Guides and Tutorials Family Safety

6 Tips for Protecting Your Social Media Accounts

10 years ago, many of us were hearing about social media for the first time. Now, social media plays a...

How To Guides and Tutorials

6 Tips for a Safer and Easier Telemedicine Visit

We’ve all been there. It’s the middle of the night and you wake up to a sad and sniffly kiddo...

Family Safety

6 Things to Monitor on Your Teen’s Instagram

Instagram is awesome — so awesome, in fact, it ranks in the top two social networks among teens. (Snapchat is...

Family Safety

6 Steps to Help Your Family Restore Digital Balance in Stressful Times

6 Steps to Help Your Family Restore Digital Balance in Stressful Times Editor’s Note: This is part II in a...

Internet Security

6 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2024 – Staying Ahead of the Latest Hacks and Attacks

AI and major elections, deepfakes and the Olympics — they all feature prominently in our cybersecurity predictions for 2024. That’s...

McAfee Labs

5G Networks Pose Cyber Risks, Opportunities

Fifth-generation networking (5G) holds the potential for a massive immersion of technology into the lives of people and businesses. It...

Mobile Security

5G Is Coming: Security Risks You Need to Know About

The future of connectivity is here ­– 5G. This new network is set to roll out across the nation this...

Mobile Security Internet Security Privacy & Identity Protection

5G and the IoT: A Look Ahead at What’s Next for Your Home and Community

5G and the IoT: A Look Ahead at What’s Next for Your Home and Community October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month,...

Privacy & Identity Protection

57 Million Users Compromised in Uber Leak: Protect Your Digital Privacy and Identity

“I’ll just Uber home.”  Who hails a taxi anymore? These days, city streets are full of double-parked sedans with their...

McAfee Labs

5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Osama Bin Laden Death Scams

I suppose this was inevitable. The reported death of Osama Bin Laden is just too good a lure for cybercriminals...

Family Safety

5 Ways to Safeguard Your Child’s Instagram Bio

Keeping your child safe online is a growing concern for many parents. However, there are ways you can help safeguard your child’s Instagram bio and enhance their online safety. Here are 5 tips to consider.

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