The World Wide Web is so big and ever changing, how do I keep my kids safe when they’re playing in their little patch of the internet? I know it feels so daunting. The internet is such a massive playground for kids with no visible boundaries.
Where do you start when trying to [...]

This week, Microsoft announced the availability of Security Essentials for consumers, which is similar to other free anti-virus software. You might be wondering, “Why not just get that for free rather than paying for McAfee?” A great question really is, who doesn’t want something for free? But the old adage, “you get what you [...]

Overnight McAfee Avert Labs confirmed that there is a political element to Thursday’s cyberattacks that downed Twitter and slowed down Facebook. According McAfee Avert Labs, blogging site LiveJournal, video site Youtube and photo sharing service Fotki were also among the targets.
“What do they have in common? They all hosted an account of a pro-Georgian [...]

(This posting was updated with content on Facebook and botnets at 11.30 AM PT on Thursday Aug. 6.)
Twitter, the rising star among social networking Web sites, was downed on Thursday morning (Pacific Time) due to an apparent distributed denial of service attack. At the same time, Facebook also came under attack.
“On this otherwise happy Thursday [...]

Personal online accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams, his wife and several of his colleagues have reportedly been compromised and confidential data on the popular social networking company is now being leaked to the media.
TechCrunch on Tuesday reported that it had received a ZIP file containing about 310 documents including “executive meeting notes, partner [...]

There is no doubt that Netbooks device category has been one of the hottest and most talked about consumer product categories in recent times. There has been a massive amount of consumer interest in netbooks and industry analysts have been keeping a very close watch on whether these inexpensive devices are actually going to [...]

Today is a sad day. I was a teenager in the eighties and grew up with Michael Jackson’s music blasting everywhere, it was a shock to hear about his untimely death.
Quickly brought back into reality, McAfee Avert Labs colleague Guilherme Venere posted a very timely warning that it won’t be long before cybercriminals will take [...]

I am sure you all must have heard about the upcoming Windows 7 release. Many journalists, analysts and reporters are raving about this new OS. As compared to its predecessor, Windows 7 is supposed to be lighter, faster and loaded with new features. For those who are interested, Microsoft is sharing a lot of information [...]

I opened my personal email this morning to find that an online scammer finally found my email address.

As the swine flu outbreak reaches near pandemic levels, cybercriminals continue to use the flu scare as bait to scam Internet users.

About five percent of global spam volume now mentions “swine flu” to trick people into opening the e-mail message. That could amount to billions of messages each day. McAfee Avert Labs has seen between [...]