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McAfee Releases their Annual 12 Scams of Christmas

November 12, 2013

McAfee is once again looking out for their customer’s this holiday season as they release their annual “12 Scams of Christmas,” which gives consumers the heads-up about some of the most common cyber scams expec...

Conficker what?

Michael Kaufmann

April 2, 2009

Well, if you're reading this, you've apparently survived the Conficker Disaster of 2009. Congratulations! Actually, the Conficker worm, which has been quietly distributing itself across Windows PCs since 2...

Dangerous celebs to Google?

John M. Guilfoil

September 16, 2008

Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with v...

McAfee identifies “Downloader-UA.h,” first medium risk malware in three years

John M. Guilfoil

May 6, 2008

McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they're calling "Downloader-UA.h," which is spreading by masquerading ...

MySpace page sends fake XP update

John M. Guilfoil

January 11, 2008

McAfee Avert Labs announced Friday a Trojan horse attack disguised as a Microsoft update on a particular MySpace profile. Attackers send friend requests to the victim MySpace users. Clicking on the person's...

11-year-old hacks iPhone

Torrey Meeks

January 9, 2008

What appeared to be a legitimate iPhone application, "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," turned out to be a piece of malicious software intended to ruin functionality on affected phones. The programmer of this dan...

Worm found on Google Orkut

John M. Guilfoil

December 20, 2007

Almost 400,000 members of Google's social networking site, Orkut, were victimized by a new spam worm spreading around the site, said McAfee's Avert Labs. "While the worm doesn't appear to harm users' PCs, it...

Blast and McAfee talk shop

Torrey Meeks

February 1, 2007

Malicious coders and hackers are constantly finding new ways to circumvent security precautions, and this isn't likely to change in 2007. While a solid anti-virus program is a good bet, the best way to avoid co...

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