The use of ransomware against businesses is soaring, with incident response teams having to deal with up to 4 attacks weekly. Originally ransomware was aimed primarily at individuals, but it is now being targeted at businesses too, with annual cos…
Locky ransomware, a variant of ransomware that scrambles your files, changes all the names, and then demands payment to unscramble them and release them back to you, has taken a holiday of sorts. Avast detection of Locky shows that attacks have slowed …
The explosive growth of personal mobile devices, the huge shift towards cloud applications and the growing impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the last year has set the scene for a complex and challenging threat landscape in 2017.
Avast is full of dog lovers, and as such, we aspire to “…to be the person my dog thinks I am.” This inspirational quote, attributed to Victorian author Mary Ann Evans, who went by the pen name George Eliot (Silas Marner and Middlemarch), speaks to our best friend’s unconditional love and non-judgmental acceptance.
As indicated by the headlines below, phishing – the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial and/or personal information by posing as a legitimate company or institution – and its criminal sidekicks spearphishing (targeted phishing)…
Some weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking at the fourth annual Child Internet Safety Summit in London. This event brings together teachers, education policy makers, researchers, professors, and foundations to discuss and debate the implications o…
Our Q3 2016 report looks at this summer’s most power draining apps and the hottestapp and smartphone trends.
We often forget that technology is a double-edged sword. With the benefits of every advance comes the possibility that it will be used for destructive purposes. ISIS builds its own drones, botnets hijack appliances to bring down huge chu…
News outlets are proclaiming this is the biggest breach of its kind and all we do is yawn and continue our everyday business. Are we in danger of becoming complacent when data breaches are disclosed, even when they grow in size?
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 10, is off to the fastest adoption of any version of Windows ever, and is already in use (33 percent), or being piloted, by more than 96 percent of enterprises. However, while security was a major focus of Microsoft in designing the software – Windows Defender and Windows Firewall – the huge success of the OS and the vast Windows installed base, which includes enterprise, SMB, public sector, and consumer, has made it a major focus of cybercriminals, too. CVE currently lists 166 Windows 10 vulnerabilities, and in an average week Avast prevents more than 2.3 million virus attacks on Windows 10 PCs.