The same advice parents might deliver to young drivers on their first solo journey applies to everyone who wants to navigate safely online. A special agent in our Cyber Division offered the following: – “Don’t drive in bad neighborhoods.” – “If you don’t lock your car, it’s vulnerable; if you… Read more »
Security? Yes! All this fuss about WordPress website security. Having a WordPress site is great, blogging at it makes you feel like you own an Empire. But somehow, it never remains safe when intruders get in. When they try to dethrone you. No matter what happens, you got to do what… Read more »
It used to be so easy to figure out what a web server was doing by examining its underlying HTML coding. Those days are sadly a thing of the distant past. Today’s web servers do so much more: they consolidate a lot of information from various sources, …
The world famous Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov has been an Avast Security Ambassador for over three years. And now, as he observes coronavirus lockdown restrictions from his Manhattan home, he is launching a video series to discuss the advanced tech…
Upbeat, self-motivated, and well-spoken may be just a few of Tetiana Pasko’s traits, but they are fundamental qualities that propelled her to where she is today – being recognized by CRN in its 2020 “Women of the Channel” list. Tetiana leads Avast…
British budget airline easyJet told the BBC that it is in the process of alerting 9 million customers about a data breach that occurred in January, exposing their email addresses and travel details. EasyJet reported that about 2,200 customers also had …
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has left many business owners ill-prepared for running their businesses from home. Even for those owners that have some prior experience operating their businesses remotely, they are finding that doing so on such a large…
Today, countries around the world are fighting an unprecedented health and economic crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has put strain on people from all walks of life. We would like to preface this article with our sympathies towards those affected, and we …
Today Verizon published the latest 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). What sets the DBIR apart is that it combines breach data from multiple sources using the common industry collection, VERIS, a third-party repository where threat data is …
The COVID-19 crisis may have caused this year’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy to go virtual, but it did nothing to lessen the need for this forum of leading researchers and tech practitioners. If anything, we need it now more than ever. …
Whether you like to have multiple tabs open while you work or you’re a tab minimalist, Avast Secure Browser can help you separate your work tabs from your personal tabs for better at-a-glance organization. It’s easy for our minds to get as clutte…
With distant learning becoming the new normal, parents-turned-teachers navigating online course curriculums, and annual school dances evolving into living room proms, it goes without saying that COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. As we …