Tag: McAfee
Hackers target consumers using fake mobile apps, claims survey
McAfee's Mobile Threat Report 2020 has found that hackers are using fake mobile apps, third-party login and counterfeit gaming videos to target consumers. Last year, hackers targeted consumers with a wide variety of methods, from backdoors to mining cryptocurrencies. Based on new research, McAfee has uncovered that hackers have expanded the ways of hiding their…
CES 2020: McAfee announces smart home vulnerabilities
Today at CES, McAfee announced findings around two smart home devices: the McLear Smart Ring (aka NFC Ring) and Chamberlain’s MyQ Hub, a “universal” garage door automation platform, revealing an insecure design and a security vulnerability respectively. McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team regularly performs security analysis of products and technologies across nearly every industry vertical. In its analysis of the consumer space, the Advanced…
Caroline Flack named most dangerous celebrity for UK online searches
Caroline Flack has been named the most dangerous celebrity name to search for online in the UK by leading cybersecurity firm McAfee. According to the latest report by anti-virus company McAfee, UK internet searches for the Love Island host generate results pointing to the riskiest of websites. Each year the firm evaluates which celebrities produce…
More than half Android anti-malware apps insufficient, warns study
More than half of anti-malware apps on Android do not offer sufficient protection to people’s smartphones and tablets, a study has found. Some 2,000 known malware threats on the operating system were sampled against 250 protection apps in a test. Results showed that only 80 of the apps were able to detect a third of…
McAfee survey reveals Spiders are top phobia, but Cybercriminals in at Number 6!
Spiders top the list of Brits' top phobias, while hackers make a surprising entry in sixth place, according to a new survey carried out by security firm McAfee. The main reason people gave for having fears and phobias was that it could cause pain or death (28%). Yet 15% of respondents put spiders as their number…
MWC 2019: McAfee warns internet users still not protecting themselves from cybercrime
Cybersecurity experts have encouraged people to do more to protect themselves from online crime, warning the rollout of 5G will only increase the potential devices that could be hacked. Raj Samani and Gary Davis, both industry experts at cybersecurity firm McAfee, said the average internet user was still making basic security errors such as using…
MWC 2019: McAfee announces two new IoT hacks. How to protect your home from attack.
McAfee Labs' Advanced Threat Research team has revealed new vulnerabilities within common IoT devices - BoxLock and Mr. Coffee coffee machines - which gave cybercriminals direct access into the personal data and homes of consumers. A vulnerability within BoxLock, a smart padlock designed to protect deliveries, enabled hackers to remotely unlock the device in just a few seconds by using the…
Heartbeat spoofing and Rick Astley Ransomware. Just some of the ways McAfee is tackling cybercrime
Image: fbi.gov Chris Price spends a day with McAfee Labs finding out how it plans to tackle cybercrime by showing organisations such as car manufacturers and the NHS just how easy it is to break into their systems.... Think McAfee and what springs to mind? Probably the anti-virus software that…
John McAfee meltdown continues with bizarre YouTube Antivirus video
John McAfee was once best known as the founder of the McAfee Antivirus software, but these days the eccentric tech celebrity is better known for the insane life he's recently been living, living on the run from authorities seeking him…
NASA rocked by "Here you have" email virus
Remember the scene from Independence Day when hacker Jeff Goldblum defeats the intergalactic alien army by uploading a computer virus onto their mothership? Well, it looks like the aliens have finally struck back, as US space agency NASA have come…
