According to Avast’s Kids Online: Generation Lockdown 2020 survey, 44 percent of parents have made agreements with their children about what is and isn’t safe to do online. And that’s great! The best defense against potential online dangers is communic…
Professor Hany Farid of UC Berkeley spoke at Avast’s CyberSec&AI Connected virtual conference last week. The event showcased leading academics and tech professionals from around the world to examine critical issues around AI for privacy and cyberse…
How many IoT-enabled smart TVs, thermostats, webcams and appliances are hooked up in your home? And how secure are they?
Millennial and Gen X parents grew up side by side with the internet, stumbling through the painful days of dial-up and America Online in their younger years and then falling head first into Facebook and social media in their twenties. So while people o…
Cybersecurity researchers in U.K. compared the data collected from 2,664 teens with current IT freelancer rates and calculated that households containing a tech-savvy teenager saved an average of about $5,300 a year in troubleshooting, tech support, an…
Cybersecurity researchers in U.K. compared the data collected from 2,664 teens with current IT freelancer rates and calculated that households containing a tech-savvy teenager saved an average of about $5,300 a year in troubleshooting, tech support, an…
It’s tempting to think that cybersecurity is something for larger organizations, but small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) should be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking that they are too small to be noticed by hackers. Hiscox’s Cyber Readines…
In a recent episode of my “Garry on Lockdown” video series, I discussed the rise of “cancel culture” with the author and critic Thomas Chatterton Williams.
In a video call with Allan Thomson, the first things you’ll notice are the plaques lining the wall behind him. They’re the 52 U.S. patents he’s filed in the more than 30 years that he’s worked in tech. From programming warplanes to standardizing the ch…
Last month, we (virtually) gathered our executives, customers, and industry experts for the first-ever Avast Business Cloud Security Summit to discuss the cybersecurity implications of the coronavirus pandemic.