This week TechCrunch reported that the Chinese company TP-Link had not addressed a vulnerability in its routers first discovered in 2017. The issue allows hackers to remotely take control of the routers by guessing weak default passwords that come with…
Call it the Case of the $200,000 Typo.
The Company
Rain Networks isn’t your average IT solutions distributor. Starting operations in 2003, the Seattle-based company initially sold antivirus software solutions to vendors that were trying to build a North American presence. Soon …
Europol takes down cybercrime supermarket
In a joint effort by six countries, Europol led a complicated international operation to take down the GozNym malware cybercriminal network. The network preyed on over 40,000 victi…
Artificial intelligence is everywhere today – and so are questions about its ethical use and cybersecurity risk. At this year’s Infosecurity Mexico, Avast brings two great thinkers to discuss this fascinating topic.
Being an engineer in the cybersecurity space means working on finding answers to potential security threats and finding better ways to safeguard our families. I work on a variety of technologies, and with cybersecurity growing rapidly, I get to stay up…
We are excited to be at this year’s Viva Technology, a global meeting of leaders and startups being held May 16-18 this week at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. If you missed us at MWC in Barcelona last February, here’s another chance to meet our cy…
Our smartphones. Where would we be without them?
In December 2018, Chinese nationals Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong were indicted by the US Department of Justice for involvement with the APT10 hacking group. The APT epithet stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. It is used to specify an elite hacking grou…
Every form of crime seems to invade the world of cybersecurity. Sooner or later that had to include the age-old childhood bullying trauma of school lunch theft. Except in this case the pilfered prize was data, not baloney.