Tag: McAfee
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How Do I Protect Myself When Using Wi-Fi?
McAfee Blog – 8.2.24 Wi-Fi is everywhere. Whether you travel for business or simply need Internet access while out and about, your options are plentiful. You can sign on at airports, hotels, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, and now, even airplanes. Source: How Do I Protect Myself When Using Wi-Fi?
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You Count on the Internet – Make It Safer Too During Cybersecurity Awareness Month
McAfee Blog – 10.3.23 How much do you count on the internet every day? Maybe you do armloads of shopping on it. Maybe you skip going to the bank because you can tackle the bulk of your finances online. And perhaps you even pay your doctor a visit with it, instead of taking a trip…
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Secret Selfies: Can Phones Take Pictures and Videos of You Without Your Knowledge?
McAfee Blog – 8.31.23 It’s a longstanding question: can your phone really take selfies without your knowledge? The answer is yes, but with a pretty big asterisk next to it. And that asterisk is known as spyware. Spyware can use your phone for snooping in several ways, including using your camera to take pictures and…
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Those Annoying Scam Calls and Texts: How to Fight Back Against Vishing and Smishing
McAfee Blog – 6.22.23 With a ring or a ping, scammers come calling and texting. It probably happens often enough. You get a call from an unknown number, and you wonder if you should even bother answering it. It’s probably a scammer. Or is it? What if it’s something important? You answer. Sure enough, it’s…
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Is My Child Being Cyberbullied Or Is It Just Banter?
McAfee Blog -5.15.23 If you were to ask me what I consider to be the most attractive attribute in a person, it would be kindness but only closely followed by a sense of humour. There’s something about somebody who can tell a funny story that I just love. And humour can be a great bonding…
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Artificial Imposters—Cybercriminals Turn to AI Voice Cloning for a New Breed of Scam
McAfee Blog – 5.15.23 Three seconds of audio is all it takes. Cybercriminals have taken up newly forged artificial intelligence (AI) voice cloning tools and created a new breed of scam. With a small sample of audio, they can clone the voice of nearly anyone and send bogus messages by voicemail or voice messaging texts. The aim,…
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How to Avoid Phishing Attacks on Your Smartphones and Computers
McAfee Blog – 5.12.23 Ping, it’s a scammer! The sound of an incoming email, text, or direct message has a way of getting your attention, so you take a look and see what’s up. It happens umpteen times a week, to the extent that it feels like the flow of your day. And scammers want…
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Protect the Whole Family with McAfee+ Ultimate Family Plan
McAfee Blog – 3.10.23 Dozens of content creators center their channels on highlighting the differences between today’s most prominent generations: the Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, and Generations Z and Alpha. At quick glance, no generation seems to have much in common with the others. Source: Protect the Whole Family with McAfee+ Ultimate…
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Super Scams – Beat the Online Scammers Who Want to Sack Your Super Bowl
McAfee Blog – 2.6.23 Crooks will aways try to cash in on a good thing, and football is no exception. Online scammers are ramping up for the big game with all types of schemes designed to rip you off and steal your personal info—but you have several ways you can beat them at their game. …
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The Rise and Risks of AI Art Apps
McAfee Blog – 1.26.23 (1.25.23) The popularity of AI-based mobile applications that can create artistic images based on pictures, such as the “Magic Avatars” from Lensa, and the OpenAI service DALL-E 2 that generates them from text, have increased the mainstream interest of these tools. Users should be aware of those seeking to take advantage…