Category Archives: Consumer Alerts

Six Easy Steps to Help Keep Hackers at Bay

Cybercriminals are adopting complex and powerful techniques to “hack,” or take control of online accounts belonging to other people or organizations. Often, they do this by identifying the passwords belonging to an account user. This used to be a complicated task, but, as The Atlantic notes, discovering passwords today can be as simple as running Read more…

What is Your Teen Doing Online? New McAfee Study Reveals All

As a parent, one of your top priorities is to ensure the safety and well-being of your children. This includes teaching them to look both ways before crossing the street, eating plenty of vegetables and having a healthy dose of skepticism when approached by strangers on the street – but how well are you doing Read more…

New High School and College Grads – Read This!

Social media profiles affects college admission, job searches, and careers A 24-year-old high school teacher in Georgia, USA, lost her job after an anonymous e-mailer complained about a Facebook picture of her sipping wine and drinking beer while on vacation in Europe. An Arizona woman was fired after ranting on Facebook when she was passed […]

Mobile innovation drives wearable technology trends

Being headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, we have the benefit of being embedded in an environment that is home to many burgeoning trends. Over the decades, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of disruptive technology emerge and keep our finger on the pulse of the latest trends. Recently, many of these developments have been Read more…

Facebook profiles are cloned

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A low-tech type of identity theft is threatening Facebook users in South Africa. Facebook “cloning” has been around for years, but has had a revival this past week. We learned about it in a personal way – the brother of an Avast colleague, Richard B. from South Africa, had his profile cloned and notified Richard. […]

5 Mobile Security Tips

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Cybercrime is one of the most lucrative illegal businesses of our time, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Over the last decade, cybercriminals have developed new and increasingly sophisticated ways of capitalizing on the explo­sion of Internet users, and they face little danger of being caught. Meanwhile, consumers are con­fronted with greater risks Read more…

A Cyber Bank for Cybercriminals Meets Its Demise

This week the Federal Government scored a major victory over a massive worldwide network of cybercriminals by shutting down Liberty Reserve, a criminal business venture disguised as a bank that was fronting a secret money system for everyone from credit card and identity thieves to Ponzi scheme peddlers, hackers for hire, and money launderers. Liberty Read more…

Analysis of a self-debugging Sirefef cryptor

Recently I wrote a blog post about a legitimate website spreading Sirefef malware. Then I continued with a deeper analysis and noticed that it uses an interesting cryptor. Malware authors spread many new variants of malware every day. These variants often look completely different at the first glance. That’s why regular updates of your antivirus […]

5 question with Marcus Taveira, our Brazilian support specialist.

We are excited to share news with you. Our social media team has added additional, professional support.  Marcus Taveira, our Latino sunshine, joins Peter Bucek to help our community by responding to technical and customer care enquiries on Facebook and Twitter. Marcus responds in Portuguese and English. We are pleased to welcome Marcus to our […]