Weak passwords make for creative design. If you use 123456 or password as your password, you may as well wear it for all to see. It’s THAT easy to crack. To illustrate this point, Lorrie Cranor, quilt artist, and oh yeah, director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, designed […]
I bet you would be lost without your smartphone. It’s your lifeline to contacts, emails, and personal information, not to mention all those apps that you use for fun, entertainment, and business. You probably have bought something using your phone, so your credit card information is there, as well as your account log ins. In […]
Introduction to Android forensics (aka CSI: Android) Digital forensics is a branch of science which deals with the recovery and investigation of materials found in digital devices. Forensics is usually mentioned in connection with crime, vaguely similar to criminal investigations on TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and NCIS. However, several experiments (1, 2), […]
The Internet has become a virtual flea market, with online consumer-to-consumer sites like Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist selling millions of products every day. Used smartphones are a popular sales item on eBay – more than 80,000 people list their phones for sale each day. It seems like a smart way to make some extra money, but […]
The AVAST community has proven its amazing loyalty and support over and over. Every day we receive messages from around the world. Your comments – positive and negative – help us improve our products and services. Your messages of appreciation for delivering a free antivirus solution prove that we are helping millions of people stay secure, and […]
avast! Anti-Theft is a separate program included in the avast! Free Mobile Security app. You can install it at the same time as avast! Mobile Security, or later, during a separate installation. Its unique capabilities help you recover your phone by controlling it remotely with SMS commands or via the Internet by logging in to your AVAST account. The app can also […]
Even the most careful planning sometimes cannot mitigate human error. A week ago, a photograph of the World Cup Security Center showing the WiFi password on a whiteboard in the background was published on the internet and immediately retweeted numerous times. Wanna know the pwd for the Brasil world cup security center WiFi nw? It’s […]
On occasion, even the most well thought-out systems can break down. In the antivirus business, we try hard to minimize something termed false positive. A false positive is merely a mistake or a false alarm. It happens when your antivirus software erroneously identifies a file or a download as being malicious. The AVAST Virus Lab […]
AVAST is the #1 Best Employer in our home country of Czech Republic. We have a multinational team and offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, Munich, and Hong Kong. Professionals from developers to support specialists to marketers want to join our team. To make sure they secure a spot with our innovative company, potential employees start […]
avast! GrimeFighter is one of the most popular new products among AVAST users. However, many of you still don’t know the benefits of it or what avast! GrimeFighter does. Therefore we have prepared a series of articles with a “movie theme” to show you the functionality of our Grime-fighting minions! The first one, Learn everything […]