As the United States presidential election draws nearer, cybersecurity firm Cloudflare has noticed an increasing number of attacks on Donald Trump’s campaign and business websites. Reuters reported that Trump hired Cloudflare to defend his websites thr…
Last month, a massive data leak exposed more than 300 million different accounts from social media platforms. The collection included 192 million records scraped from two different Instagram collections, along with 42 million records scraped from …
We’re excited to announce our new endpoint security integration with ConnectWise Automate, a leading remote monitoring and professional services automation company (RMM). This integration will offer the security, efficacy, ease of management, and cost …
Avast and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have announced details of the workshop sessions for the 2020 CyberSec&AI Connected conference. Aimed at academics and industry professionals who operate at the intersection of AI, cybersecuri…
A new form of peer-to-peer (P2P) malware has been discovered that sets a new bar for nastiness. Called FritzFrog, it has been found in various networks since the beginning of the year. Why is it so noteworthy? Several reasons: it is fileless, operates …
As Chief Information Security Officer at Avast, it fills me with tremendous pride to announce that Avast is now a member of the IWF!
For younger generations, it is hard to imagine a world without paper-thin iPads and phones that double as cameras and computers. But back in the 1980s, laptops and mobile phones were state-of-the-art technologies reserved only for the wealthy or young,…
Graham Ivan Clark, Onel de Guzman and Michael Calce. These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
It’s an historic moment. No less than the entire human race finds itself banded together as we all do our part to fight a global pandemic. Along the way, we’re learning a lot about epidemiology, healthcare infrastructure, adaptability, and human nature…
According to COVID-19 and Stimulus Reports by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), there have been over 180,000 complaints of coronavirus-related scams this year, and the number continues to climb. Almost 50% of those complaints included financial …