5G Cybersecurity And Service Providers | Avast
This spring, Avast’s Sean Obrey had the pleasure of sitting down with Light Reading’s Phil Harvey twice to discuss the new world of 5G cybersecurity and how Avast can create value for service providers.
Category Archives: Consumer Alerts
Understanding Encrypted Attack Types and How They Work | Avast
As cloud-based technologies become the tool of choice for today’s global workforces, keeping businesses protected from web-based attacks is a primary challenge for IT service providers.
Avast Discovers 47 Android Adware Apps | Avast
Avast researchers have discovered a large campaign of HiddenAds on the Google Play Store. HiddenAds refers to a family of Trojans that disguise as safe and useful applications, but in fact only serve to display intrusive ads to the user. The discovered…
Transparent Microsegmentation for Smart Home Security | Avast
This Thursday and Friday, June 25th and 26th, come join us at the USENIX HotEdge ‘20 workshop, a digital event bringing together researchers, academics, and experts in edge computing to share their ideas, discuss research, and identify the newest trend…
“Garry on Lockdown” Episode 2 | Avast
Since it began, Avast Security Ambassador Garry Kasparov has been observing the world in lockdown from his home in New York. Noting the seismic shifts in our work cultures, tech practices, and day-to-day living, Garry soon saw the need for a forum wher…
Understanding Air Gaps | Avast
One of the things that I miss in these Covid times is the ability to travel regularly to Israel, where my daughter and her family have been living for many years. Often on these visits I would take the opportunity to check in with several security rese…
Ondrej Vlcek and Garry Kasparov Speak at Collision | Avast
Politico calls it “the Olympics of tech” and Bloomberg qualifies it as “one of the world’s biggest tech conferences.” It’s Collision, a web summit taking place June 23-25 that features over 450 speakers, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Canadi…
Protecting K-12 Remote Classes | Avast
Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet.
Ripple20 Flaws Found in Millions of IoT Devices | Avast
Security researchers found this week that a core software component in hundreds of millions of IoT devices has 19 hackable vulnerabilities in its code. The buggy code, its actual function to enable the device to connect with any network or the internet…
Staying Ahead of Encrypted Attacks | Avast
Digital innovation holds multiple advantages for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) — it’s also creating a threat landscape like nothing we’ve experienced in the past.