With distant learning becoming the new normal, parents-turned-teachers navigating online course curriculums, and annual school dances evolving into living room proms, it goes without saying that COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. As we …
Björn Ruytenbe, a Dutch security researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, revealed details this week of a new attack he discovered that exploits a vulnerability in the common Intel Thunderbolt port found in millions of PCs around the world. Th…
Working together with Slovakia-based security company ESET, Avast researchers analyzed samples used by an APT group to target Central Asian entities including a telecommunications company, a gas company, and a governmental institution. The attackers in…
Exactly three years ago, a scourge known as WannaCry ransomware began its global spread. For Avast researchers, May 12, 2017 started like a typical Friday until Avast Antivirus blocked 2,000 users from ransomware attacks at 8am. Within the next hour, a…
Many of us are worried about our elders. It’s incredibly important that we protect them from the dangers of the COVID-19 virus, but as weeks stretch into months, we also need to keep loneliness and depression at bay until we can be together with them. …
Whether it’s improved processes, new revenue models, or even full automation of operations, digital technologies are enabling small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) to scale, drive productivity, and compete effectively in their markets. In fact, 82% of S…
While online dating apps have grown increasingly popular over the past 10 years, they’ve also become a hot spot for hackers.
Email is such an integral part of everyday life we tend to ignore, or simply be unaware, that it is the biggest single threat to cybersecurity. Yet almost all cybercrime is either email-based, or employs email as part of the process.
Wordfence, the security plugin for WordPress sites, reported in its blog this week that its Threat Intelligence Team observed a single malware campaign target more than 900,000 WordPress sites over the past month, with over half of the attacks occurrin…
Today is World Password Day, and in a recent interview with TechRepublic, the COO of password management provider 1Password estimated that we currently have about 100 billion passwords protecting our digital gateways.