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McAfee+ Review

4.0

With McAfee+, the company's top-tier security suite, you get protection for all your devices, guaranteed expert help for identity theft remediation, and innovative options to reduce your online exposure.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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McAfee Total Protection Review

3.5

McAfee Total Protection offers security, VPN, and password management on all popular platforms, but unlimited device licensing is off the table, as are a variety of expected features.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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McAfee Total Protection for Mac Review

3.5

A McAfee Total Protection subscription defends your Macs and other devices. However, the macOS edition doesn't have all the features of the Windows version, and the independent labs haven't rated it.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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McAfee AntiVirus Review

4.0

McAfee AntiVirus gets near-perfect lab scores and does well in our tests, but it only protects one device.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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New CAPTCHA Attack Targets Users Looking for Pirated PC Games

The fake security test is designed to manipulate users into downloading and installing the password-looting Lumma Stealer malware, according to McAfee researchers.

By Michael Kan
The infection chain to the attack.

McAfee Demos 'Deepfake Detector' Powered by AI and Intel

AI can create convincing deepfakes, so how can we tell what's real? We get help from AI.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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13 Malicious Android Apps You Should Delete Immediately

McAfee identifes malware that has potentially compromised 327,000 Android devices. If you downloaded any on these 13 apps from Google Play, uninstall them now.

By Emily Price
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How Your Security Software Can Also Protect Your Identity

Digital thieves are getting smarter, and so are the solutions to thwarting them.

McAfee Could Go Private Again in a $10 Billion-Plus Deal

From private to public to private again.

By Nathaniel Mott

Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Found Dead in Prison Cell

The US had been seeking McAfee's extradition from Spain on charges he committed tax evasion and an illegal pump-and-dump scheme involving cryptocurrencies.

By Michael Kan

McAfee MVision Cloud Review

3.0

McAfee MVision Cloud is a good all around system for protecting your devices and cloud infrastructure, and the hybrid protection model is novel. However, there are certain kinds of threats that it has some trouble detecting.

By Daniel Brame

McAfee Safe Family Review

2.5

McAfee Safe Family offers several standard parental control tools and can monitor an unlimited number of PCs and phones. However, its Windows app is sluggish in testing, it does not support macOS devices, and it lacks a web interface.

By Ben Moore
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Report: McAfee Wants to Buy NortonLifeLock

Next year, Norton and LifeLock could become McAfee-owned brands.

By Matthew Humphries
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McAfee Endpoint Protection Essential for SMB Review

3.0

McAfee delivers a well-featured business security product with its Endpoint Protection Essential for SMB platform. However an excess of configurability will cause added complexity and confusion for some.

By Daniel Brame
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AI and Machine Learning Exploit, Deepfakes, Now Harder to Detect

Deepfake videos are enabled by machine learning and data analytics. They're also highly believable, and now easier and cheaper than ever to produce while simultaneously being harder to detect.

By Brian T. Horowitz
AI and Machine Learning Exploit, Deepfakes, Now Harder to Detect

Americans Are So Jaded About Identity Theft, Cybercrime

Seventy-six percent of Americans believe it's 'inevitable' they will fall victim to identity theft and cybercrime. Yet, less than half take precautions such as using a VPN on public Wi-Fi networks.

By Angela Moscaritolo
ERP Maestro cybercrime/identity theft

McAfee Internet Security Review

3.5

McAfee Internet Security offers all expected suite features, antivirus, firewall, antispam, parental control, and more. But you get the best of these features in McAfee's standalone antivirus, for quite a bit less.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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More Than $1.1M Lost to Cybercrime Every Minute

Every 60 seconds, 1,861 people are impacted by cybercrimes such as malware and phishing attacks, cybersecurity company RiskIQ revealed in its Evil Internet Minute 2.0 report.

By Angela Moscaritolo
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35 Percent of People Never Change Their Passwords

A new PCMag survey of 2,500 US consumers, conducted between June 30 and July 2, reveals that 35 percent of people never change their passwords; they only do it if they're prompted.

By Angela Moscaritolo
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Hackers Sold Remote Access to Major Airport for Only $10

The access was being sold on a Russian-language marketplace. The affected airport system was available on the open internet and may have been secured with a weak password.

By Michael Kan
Hacker Enters Information Security Hallway With Locks