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Hackers Love Healthcare, Voters Fall Prey to the Dark Web | Avast

Emotet malware becomes more versatile; mass harvests emails
Emotet malware, which is usually identified as a banking trojan, is now becoming more versatile and has created a new means for stealing victims’ emails, going back as far as six months. Th…

How to password protect a folder or file in Windows | Avast

In a perfect world, once you set up a Windows password, all is secure and safe, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. A Windows login password offers a very basic level of protection that mainly keeps your files safe from others who may share your…

Avast Business Cybersecurity Skills Series – Are you Registered? | Avast Business

After hosting our Cybersecurity Essentials Master Course in our first two cities, feedback and appreciation have been strong. In fact, so positive that we’ve added a last tour date in Manchester, UK with new speakers.  There is also still time t…

Premier One transforms patch management with Managed Workplace | Avast Business

The Company
Headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, Premier One provides managed IT and security services, as well as IT consulting, to small businesses. The company’s clients include service-based industries, such as title insurance, accounting, legal, a…

Hacker creates seven new variants of the Mirai botnet | Avast

In September 2016, Twitter, CNN, Spotify, and many others were knocked offline by the biggest DDoS attack in history. Today we know it by the name Mirai, but no one would have imagined at the time that this attack was coming from a herd of Internet of …