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It’s been a big year for big data breaches. Billions of records on millions of people have been exposed at...

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Deepfakes of Prince William and the UK Prime Minister are pushing investment scams on Facebook and Instagram. Uncovered by Fenimore...

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News of a major data breach that could affect nearly three billion records comes to light from a somewhat unusual...

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Recently, a significant global outage resulted in thousands of Windows computers being brought offline. The source of the outage was...

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Update: AT&T announced a cybersecurity breach on July 12th that exposed call records and text data for a significant portion...

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Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce has issued a ban on the sale of all Kaspersky online...

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Over the past year and a half, workers everywhere have gotten used to working from home. They have adopted an...

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In October, a hacker claimed to have hijacked profile information of “millions” of users from the popular genetic testing site...

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PayPal recently notified thousands of its customers that their accounts were breached by hackers, leaving their Social Security Numbers and...

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As 2022 draws to a close, the Threat Research Team at McAfee Labs takes a look forward—offering their predictions for...

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Hackers have posted another batch of stolen health records on the dark web—following a breach that could potentially affect nearly...

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Optus, one of Australia’s largest telecommunications carriers, reported news of a data breach that may have compromised the information of...

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By Oliver Devane  Update: In the past 24 hours (from time of publication)  McAfee has identified 15 more scam sites...

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Like many consumers around the world, you’re probably scouring the internet to find the perfect gifts for your friends and...

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Several security researchers have recently reported a powerful software bug that could potentially affect thousands of popular websites, services, hosted apps, and even game servers—thanks to an apparent flaw that could...

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The Robinhood trading platform recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the information of millions of its customers. News of the attack was released on Monday, November 8th along with word the...

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It’s little surprise that a digital currency scam based on the popular Squid Games series on Netflix is making the news.   If you haven’t...

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The Latest on the Uber Data Breach and Protecting Your Info You may have spotted the news last week that...

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Small business owners are getting a special deal on their online protection through a partnership between McAfee and Visa. With new ways of working creating online opportunities and risks for...

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What happened   Microsoft has shipped an emergency security update affecting most Windows users. This update partially addresses a security vulnerability known as PrintNightmare that could allow...

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