There’s been a lot of talk over the weekend about a new vulnerability called “Log4j” and how it affects major cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft. It’s serious enough that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
As a 20-year-old college student, I was always looking to make fast cash. During my junior year of college, the holiday season was upon us and my part-time job was barely covering the fee to fill up my gas tank. As I looked through my schoo…
A crypto support bot scam discovered in May has now increased and widened its breadth of targeted cryptocurrency users. The way it works is that scammers monitor every tweet on Twitter for specific keywords, such as the crypto platform name…
If I were to ask you where your online identity exists, you might struggle to list all of the places your personal information is stored. For most of us, the number is over 150 accounts and passwords per person, with everything from contact…
It was announced recently that MI6, the UK’s secret intelligence service that you are familiar with if you’ve ever seen a James Bond movie, would begin partnering with technology companies to speed up their innovation and keep pace with Rus…
Iris? recently published their 5th Annual Holiday Identity Theft Survey results. Unfortunately, shoppers in 2021 are still under stress from the same kind of scammers and fraudsters as they were in 2020.
Throughout 2021, cybercriminals continued to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploiting people’s habits formed during lockdown to spread scams. Ransomware, crypto malware, and scams continued to prevail, and on the mobile side, adw…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Avast Mobile Security (AMS). We’re so proud to have helped Android users improve their phone’s security, privacy, and performance for an entire decade!
If you are going online this holiday season (and let’s be real — we all are), then you’ve seen the notice urging you to “accept all cookies.” Have you ever wondered what that means? You’re not the only one! Since we all apparently have cook…
A new poll commissioned by e-commerce search specialist Empathy.co revealed that most shoppers distrust online stores and choose not to share personal data with them. In the survey conducted by Censuswide, 4,000 British consumers were asked…