Should You Trust Contact Tracing Apps? | Avast
If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Why Is eBay Port Scanning My Computer?| Avast
Every week brings more security news and this week is about an interesting piece of Javascript that can run in your browser if you happen to use eBay under a particular set of circumstances. The code can scan your computer and send information ba…
Video recap: CyberSec & AI Prague 2019 – ‘Event of the Year’
Over 300 attendees from 19 different countries came to see the best minds in AI and cybersecurity — from both academia and industry — answer the question: “How can AI help us live free, safe, and secure lives?”
How Political Candidates Are Abusing Tracking Technologies | Avast
It used to be so easy to figure out what a web server was doing by examining its underlying HTML coding. Those days are sadly a thing of the distant past. Today’s web servers do so much more: they consolidate a lot of information from various sources, …
New Avast Video Series “Garry on Lockdown” | Avast
The world famous Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov has been an Avast Security Ambassador for over three years. And now, as he observes coronavirus lockdown restrictions from his Manhattan home, he is launching a video series to discuss the advanced tech…
Avast’s Tetiana Pasko Honored by CRN Women of the Channel | Avast
Upbeat, self-motivated, and well-spoken may be just a few of Tetiana Pasko’s traits, but they are fundamental qualities that propelled her to where she is today – being recognized by CRN in its 2020 “Women of the Channel” list. Tetiana leads Avast…
EasyJet Data Breach Exposes 9M Customers | Avast
British budget airline easyJet told the BBC that it is in the process of alerting 9 million customers about a data breach that occurred in January, exposing their email addresses and travel details. EasyJet reported that about 2,200 customers also had …
Remote Working Challenges | Avast
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has left many business owners ill-prepared for running their businesses from home. Even for those owners that have some prior experience operating their businesses remotely, they are finding that doing so on such a large…
Smart Life For Your Customers’ While WFH | Avast
Today, countries around the world are fighting an unprecedented health and economic crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has put strain on people from all walks of life. We would like to preface this article with our sympathies towards those affected, and we …
Latest Security Trends from Verizon’s Annual Breach Report | Avast
Today Verizon published the latest 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). What sets the DBIR apart is that it combines breach data from multiple sources using the common industry collection, VERIS, a third-party repository where threat data is …