Avast receives perfect score in latest Mobile Security Test
Use a smartphone? Then surely you’re using a security product to protect it… to protect YOU, right? In case you’re looking, here’s one that aced the exam across the board.
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Back to School Tips: The ABCs of Online Security
It’s time once again for backpacks, busses, and school bells. Here are a few good lessons to share with your kids so they can get through the school year with an A+ in online safety.
Is your vacuum cleaner spying on you? Because that would suck
Imagine this: you arrive home in the middle of the day, quite unexpected, and find your cleaning lady — whom you hired to take care of things while you’re at work — taking pictures of your bedroom. “What are you doing?” you may very reasonably ask.
The 5 Vs of big data for machine learning
Most of today’s malware goes through automated modification, upgrade, and re-deployment so frequently and quickly that machine learning is a vital security solution component. Machine learning allows a system to learn from data and observation automatically. The most effective machine learning occurs when the learnings are gained via big data: the more information we feed our machines, the more accurately they identify trends and create models. This is true not only in security, but in every area that uses machine learning.
9 cybersecurity terms you need to know
These days, keeping your devices secure, data private, and online world safe from harm seems like a daunting task. While plenty of reliable solutions exist for desktop and mobile, knowing where you’re vulnerable can be difficult … especially if you’re not familiar with the jargon thrown around regarding the latest data breach.
Is your Android device getting sluggish? Find the culprits in our list of performance-draining apps
Our Q1 2017 report looks at the top performance-draining apps and the latest app and smartphone trends.
Plenty of Phishing
Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, start your search engines.
DEF CON may be over, but the challenge is still on
You may have read about our cool crypto challenge at Def Con here on our blog two weeks ago and may be wondering who won the prize (HackRF One).
Protecting your online information isn’t impossible, though more than half of Americans seem to think it is
Last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 1,040 American adults about their cybersecurity beliefs, attitudes, and practices. What emerged is a collective persona both fascinating and troubling. While 64% of those surveyed have online accounts with sensitive health, banking, or financial information and 64% have also experienced a major data breach, an even greater percentage of these same adults practice lax – if any – cybersecurity.
Fighting Hate and Saving Speech
A new law passed in Germany in June requires social media companies to delete content that qualifies as hate speech within 24 hours, or face fines starting at $5 million and reaching $57 million. The law and the controversy in which it quickly be…