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The Privacy Problems with Mobile Messaging Apps
When you chat with someone through a third-party messaging app, be aware that someone may read it—someone other than your...
How Hackers are Using Heartbleed to Trick You into Infecting Your Computer
Heartbleed, a vulnerability affecting nearly 70% of websites on the Internet, was discovered two months ago. It was big. It...
It’s ‘Game Over’ for Zeus and CryptoLocker
Under Operation Tovar, global law enforcement—in conjunction with the private sector and McAfee—has launched an action to dismantle the Gameover...
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...
Ransomware Goes Mobile
The dominance of mobile devices has given hackers a growing market to chase after, with many of the same tools...
USB Drives – With Convenience Comes Risk
I’m sure most of us have used a USB drive (or thumb drive) at one point or another. They are...
Information Operations an Integral Part of Cyberwarfare
Weapons and the skills to use them are not the only decisive elements in warfare. Rhetoric and imagery are important,...
Strike a Pose: Blackshades Malware Spies Through Your Webcam
In the old days, one simply had to draw their blinds to avoid peeping toms from spying on their private...
Iranian Keylogger Marmoolak Enters via Backdoor
Targeted attacks have several stages, sometimes called the APT kill chain. At McAfee Labs we prefer the model described by...
Necurs, Zbot Use Obfuscated Windows XP Detection to Bypass Analysis
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. McAfee Labs has recently come across a number of malware samples that drop...
