Planet Hollywood Owner Hit By Data Breach | Avast
Earl Enterprises — the parent company of famed Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo restaurant chains — last week admitted to suffering a payment card data breach over a 10-month period.
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Planet Hollywood Owner Hit By Data Breach | Avast
Earl Enterprises — the parent company of famed Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo restaurant chains — last week admitted to suffering a payment card data breach over a 10-month period.
Digital Disinformation Runs Rampant | Avast
President Trump’s constant mislabeling of mainstream news reports he doesn’t appreciate as “fake news” has done much to muddle the accurate definition of this profound global force – and obscure the societal damage this rising phenomenon is precipitati…
Cybercriminals Fall for IoT Honeypots | Avast
On Sunday 24th February, the eve of Mobile World Congress 2019, Avast security researchers Martin Hron, Vladislav Iliushin, Libor Bakajsa, and Anna Shirokova set a project in motion: the deployment of 500 honeypots in 10 countries around the world that…
Scammer steals over a million from Google and FB | Avast
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering, the sum of which netted him $99 million from Facebook and $23 million from Google. What may sound like a complicated scheme was actu…
Stealing Kids’ Data and More Security News | Avast
Child’s play
A disturbing new trend is emerging from the dark web underworld. Cybercriminals are now using the personal data of children to set up credit lines and perpetrate identity theft. Because children naturally have fresh, unblemished credit, t…
FTC Orders ISPs to Disclose Data Practices | Avast
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday issued orders to AT&T, AT&T Mobility, Comcast Xfinity, Google Fiber, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Cellco to provide specific information regarding the collection, retention, and use of customer data. In its pres…
Spotlight on AI Expert Deepali Garg | Avast
Because International Women’s Day should just as well be every day, Avast is proud to have worked with the San Francisco Chronicle to feature one of its very own in the special insert “Women in Computing,” highlighting exceptional women in technology. …
Router Attacks Can Devastate Your Smart Home | Avast
Wireless routers are perhaps the most fundamental piece of technology required for an internet-connected house. Seventy-six percent of households in the US use Wi-Fi as the primary means of connecting to the internet, and routers give us our Wi-Fi. But…
Seven Social Media Scams to Avoid | Avast
Thieves no longer stop at credit card numbers and financial swindling. Sure, they want your money, but today’s career criminals want more. They want your data.