Juniper Research predicts that by 2022 more than half the homes in the U.S. will contain smart speakers like today’s popular Amazon Alexa and Google Home, and it’s easy to see why. Providing the answer to any question we can dream up, producing music a…
Data breach in the wild
“Practice what you preach” was clearly not a part of the Swiss-based Veeam’s policy as someone left almost 200GB of data available to anyone online. The unsecured MongoDB server was open from August 31st, 2018 to September 9th,…
By now, you should be familiar with that sudden bout of uncertainty as you are gearing up to install a new application. How do you check if an Android app is safe to install? Does it have a virus? What does a malware app even look like? If you have eve…
Continuing the seemingly unending parade of data breaches marching through the headlines over the past year, including the Reddit breach, the Atlas Quantum breach, the Huazhu hotel chain breach, and the Air Canada breach — and those were all just in Au…
Continuing the seemingly unending parade of data breaches marching through the headlines over the past year, including the Reddit breach, the Atlas Quantum breach, the Huazhu hotel chain breach, and the Air Canada breach — and those were all just in Au…
Managed security services provide a great way to deliver the protection that today’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) require while providing an opportunity to differentiate and grow your business through new revenue and services. Done right, managed…
Phishing scams are pouring into inboxes in droves. And as the sheer volume of these scams increases, so do the levels of sophistication. Verizon reports that 30% of phishing scam emails get opened by the targeted users, with 12% of those users clicking…
“You might be well protected, but if someone in your office downloads the latest episode of Game Of Thrones from some shady site and brings it into the office on a USB, plugs it in… before you know it, you’ve got malware all through the system”
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We’ve been talking to our Small and Medium Business (SMB) customers lately about their IT Security posture. Surprisingly, a lot of folks are saying that they’re either too busy or don’t have the right tools to know whether they’re vuln…
In early 2019, Avast Antivirus client version 19 will kick cybersecurity to the next level. We will be releasing it throughout our home and business products. Avast Antivirus client version 19 will NOT be compatible with Windows XP or Vista operating s…