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McAfee Wins 3 Major AV-TEST Awards for 2025 Security Performance

AndyC 17 March 2026

McAfee Total Protection has been recognized with three major honors in the AV-TEST Best Awards 2025, receiving awards for Best Performance, Best Advanced Protection,...

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Anti-Malware

1 in 7 Lose Money to Romance Scams. Spot the Red Flags:

AndyC 11 February 2026

“I signed up for an app because it felt like the only realistic way to meet people as a working single mom.” ...

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Anti-Malware

Filing Taxes? Why Identity Protection Matters More Than Ever This Season

AndyC 7 February 2026

Tax season creates a rare and dangerous overlap: Americans are sharing their most sensitive personal information at the exact moment...

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Anti-Malware

How McAfee’s Scam Detector Checks QR Codes and Social Messages

AndyC 28 January 2026

Scams don’t always arrive with obvious warning signs. They show up as QR codes on parking meters. As casual DMs that start...

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Anti-Malware

McAfee Report: In the AI Slop Era, Americans Spend Weeks Each Year Questioning What’s Real

AndyC 28 January 2026

Merriam-Webster’s word of 2025 was “slop.” Specifically, AI slop. Low-effort, AI-generated content now fills social feeds, inboxes, and message threads....

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Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps

Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps

AndyC 26 March 2026

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public...

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Cloud workload security: Mind the gaps

Cloud workload security: Mind the gaps

AndyC 25 March 2026

Business Security As IT infrastructure expands, visibility and control often lag behind – until an incident forces a reckoning Tomáš Foltýn 24 Mar 2026 • ...

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Move fast and save things: A quick guide to recovering a hacked account

Move fast and save things: A quick guide to recovering a hacked account

AndyC 21 March 2026

Cybercriminals go after people’s personal information across every kind of online platform, including WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Roblox, YouTube and Spotify, not to mention finance apps....

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EDR killers explained: Beyond the drivers

EDR killers explained: Beyond the drivers

AndyC 20 March 2026

In recent years, EDR killers have become one of the most commonly seen tools in modern ransomware intrusions: an attacker acquires high privileges, deploys such...

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Face value: What it takes to fool facial recognition

Face value: What it takes to fool facial recognition

AndyC 14 March 2026

ESET’s Jake Moore used smart glasses, deepfakes and face swaps to ‘hack’ widely-used facial recognition systems – and he'll demo it all at RSAC 2026...

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Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar

Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar

AndyC 13 March 2026

The war in Iran was less than 24 hours old when it produced a historic first: the deliberate targeting of commercial data centers. On March...

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Enhancing User Experience with Passwordless Authentication: A Design-First Approach

Enhancing User Experience with Passwordless Authentication: A Design-First Approach

AndyC 26 March 2026

Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps

Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps

AndyC 26 March 2026

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Entropy-Rich Synthetic Data Generation for PQC Key Material

AndyC 26 March 2026

What the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill Means for Security Practitioners

What the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill Means for Security Practitioners

AndyC 26 March 2026

What the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill Means for Security Practitioners

What the UK Cyber Security & Resilience Bill Means for Security Practitioners

AndyC 26 March 2026