Increasingly, law enforcement agencies and lawmakers are asking smartphone developers like Apple and Google to create backdoors into the encryptions that protect user data. But even without them, investigators can access your data.
You might have missed the news about a FaceTime bug that was found about a year ago. The bug enabled anyone to start a group FaceTime call with one of your contacts, even if that person didn’t explicitly accept the call.
We are very excited to share Episode 1 of our brand new series, Avast Hacker Archives, or AHA for short. Hosted by Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, the series showcases those valuable “Aha!” moments achieved by white hat hackers and researchers that changed the …
It’s one of the biggest clichés of today: data is the new oil. But then, clichés are clichés because they are true.
It’s one of the biggest clichés of today: data is the new oil. But then, clichés are clichés because they are true.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once something you only heard about in science fiction — but not anymore. These days, AI is used for everything from computers playing chess to self-driving cars to robots you can actually interact with. But the develop…
Earlier this month, WhatsApp gave its users an ultimatum: accept new data sharing terms or delete their accounts. For some of its billion global users, this was not received well, especially since some of your data would be shared across all of Faceboo…
Do you ever “log in with Google” or “log in with Facebook” to access an account that’s not either of those two? If so, you have used single sign-on (SSO), and you probably chose that option because it saved you from having to create and remember yet an…
Various sensitive source codes belonging to Microsoft, Cisco, FireEye, and network management company SolarWinds are allegedly for sale on a website called SolarLeaks. The site was launched this week, about a month after a cyberattack on SolarWinds tha…
As we embark on a new orbit around the sun, many of us have high hopes for a brighter year in 2021 than 2020 offered. In the world of technology, there is some validity to that statement as major network operators across the globe race to provide true …