
When you turn on your computer in the morning, do you have enough time to brew a cup of coffee while it starts up? Is your PC so tired that you can take a walk around the block waiting for a program to open? If your machine seems like it’s on life support, there are a few things you can do to help put some pep back in its processors.
A variant of the Android banking Trojan GM Bot is now targeting customers of more than 50 banks around the world, including Citibank, ING, and Bank of America. In the last three months, our mobile users encountered GM bot more than 200,000 times.
At Avast Threat Labs, we are constantly monitoring the threat landscape and evaluating current risks. Most of the time, we face prevalent strains of malware, such as Locky or Cerber ransomware, but from time to time we are alerted by our automated syst…

Many of us noticed that some of our favorite websites were acting a little strangely on Friday. Perhaps your tweets were failing to load or your connection to Spotify was wonky. Instead of brushing this off as the result of any regular online bug or unreliable Wi-Fi, take a moment to realize that these sites’ behavior was caused by a massive online attack that wiped out a significant portion of the Internet for hours on end.
Do you have more than one Twitter or WhatsApp account? If you answered yes, do you want to log in to these multiple accounts at the same time? Up until this point, logging in to multiple social media accounts at one time has only been possible by usi…
Is Vladimir Putin almighty? Some say that he’s behind everything that moves the world. We steer clear of any conspiracy theories, but what we can say for sure is that President Putin recently made it to the world of Torrent.
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The only thing worse than annoying advertisements are malicious advertisements.

In Part 3 of our exploration of the state of cybersecurity — Part 1 examined the basics of business security, including the core functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover), while Part 2 addressed the growing and evolving threat environment — we find that the size of your organization doesn’t matter when it comes to risks. The ugly truth is that all organizations are vulnerable, particularly small and medium businesses, which do not offer the financial potential of larger organizations, but also have neither the skills nor resources of wealthier targets.