SamSam ransomware is back with a surprising addition
The ransomware strain that locked up the city of Atlanta in March of this year has returned, cybersecurity experts report, but with one mysterious addition. This new variant of the most infamous ran…
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1990
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Alwil
Avast!
Always
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Paris
Vienna
Creeper
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Medicine
Physics
Math
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Because it’s another word for “butt”
Because we stubbornly protect people’s privacy
Because we work “as hard as a mule”
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McAfee
Norton
AVG
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The vast, beautiful universe
Some funky new video game
A visualization of our enormous database of files (viewable in VR!)
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Pavel Baudis
Vince Steckler
Garry Kasparov
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2015
2009
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W3’rEturNING30!
30ye@rsYOUng>>
Neither, don’t share your passwords online!
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“Meet Avast”
“Avast Free Antivirus gets Gold”
“The Daily Buzz with Avast”
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Hello
Spotted
Stop
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The Czech Republic
The United States
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Our blob logo.
Vince, our CEO
You, our users!
Ready for some fun? We hope you realize…these are our most advanced questions. Enjoy 😉
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Mom — she bakes awesome brownies
AV — it protects all my, um… “private data”
We really hope you didn’t take this question seriously. Your mom is an angel
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Hand it over — but only if it asked nicely!
Give them your mom’s, just in case it’s a hoax.
Panic and throw your computer out the nearest open window.
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Wait, it’s dangerous?
If I win a GODDAMN large sum of money, there can’t be anything wrong with that!
It’s only dangerous if you’re on the receiving end — muahahaha — CLICKNOW2win
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Very Punctual Norwegians
Vicki Picks Noses
Vicious Police Nuggets
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I’m on a diet, please, stop sabotaging my road to recovery
Wait, they track me, right? Is it the Po-Po?
I make cookies in my sleep
Ops, you are wrong!
You are right!
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I spoke on politics and human rights at an important forum in New York last May, and my fellow speakers included many current and former politicians and academics there to talk about everything from North Korea to press freedom to cybersecurity. Former US Congressman Mike Rogers was one of them, and he gave a polished presentation about many of the risks we are facing today in the digital sphere, both for personal and national security. As the former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he was faced with these urgent concerns on a daily basis. (Unfortunately, the Committee has now become a political battleground, a very dangerous situation because security shouldn’t be a partisan issue.)
Microsoft fixes 50 flaws for Windows, Adobe, Spectre, and more
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This Saturday, June 16, we are throwing open our doors at Avast HQ in Prague for an unforgettable all-day adventure, and you’re invited. Whether you’re a developer, engineer, security expert, amateur hacker, or just someone interested in cybersecurity and hacking, you’re more than welcome to attend.
As all the pieces of our cyberworld — personal laptops, business desktops, smartphones, digital assistants, TVs, appliances — grow more connected, they also make us more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Both on the individual and corporate levels, cyberattacks have become big business, which in turn has made cybersecurity big business as well. The research firm Gartner estimates that $96 billion will be spent on global information security in 2018, an 8% increase from 2017.