Avast researchers have discovered a large campaign of HiddenAds on the Google Play Store. HiddenAds refers to a family of Trojans that disguise as safe and useful applications, but in fact only serve to display intrusive ads to the user. The discovered…
This Thursday and Friday, June 25th and 26th, come join us at the USENIX HotEdge ‘20 workshop, a digital event bringing together researchers, academics, and experts in edge computing to share their ideas, discuss research, and identify the newest trend…
Since it began, Avast Security Ambassador Garry Kasparov has been observing the world in lockdown from his home in New York. Noting the seismic shifts in our work cultures, tech practices, and day-to-day living, Garry soon saw the need for a forum wher…
One of the things that I miss in these Covid times is the ability to travel regularly to Israel, where my daughter and her family have been living for many years. Often on these visits I would take the opportunity to check in with several security rese…
Politico calls it “the Olympics of tech” and Bloomberg qualifies it as “one of the world’s biggest tech conferences.” It’s Collision, a web summit taking place June 23-25 that features over 450 speakers, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Canadi…
Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet.
Security researchers found this week that a core software component in hundreds of millions of IoT devices has 19 hackable vulnerabilities in its code. The buggy code, its actual function to enable the device to connect with any network or the internet…
Digital innovation holds multiple advantages for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) — it’s also creating a threat landscape like nothing we’ve experienced in the past.
What is the dark web?
Last year, U.S. businesses suffered almost 1,500 data breaches, exposing more than 160 million sensitive records. This year, the trend has only continued with major data breaches hitting the headlines every week. It’s undeniable – with cybercrimin…