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.
We are pleased to announce Avast’s investment and membership in prpl Foundation. The prpl Foundation strives to enable “high-velocity, service-driven innovation on customer-premises equipment by harmonizing interfaces in open APIs and delivering open-s…
For those who are new to security, it may be a surprise that the one of the farthest reaching and devastating computer viruses, ILOVEYOU virus, first appeared 20 years ago this week. The virus originated in the Philippines and arrived in the form of an…
Fresh from winning the 2019 AI Awards ‘Event of the Year’, Avast and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have announced details of 2020’s CyberSec&AI Connected conference.
Creating a new patch management policy
Patch management enables code changes to be tested and installed on a device’s existing Windows-operating applications. It updates systems on the latest patches (codes) available and ascertains which ones to use,…
Long before COVID-19, some notable behind-the-scenes forces were in motion to elevate cybersecurity to a much higher level.
A new malware called EventBot is infecting Android devices in order to steal login credentials for banking apps and cryptocurrency wallets, TechCrunch reported. Researchers believe the malware is still a work-in-progress that has not been officially “r…
The last few weeks have been and continue to be a challenge for everyone working from home. The web is already full of often generic “How to work from home” advice: Dress the part, keep up normal hours, get up regularly….you’ve read them all by n…
Have you heard the news? We are pleased to announce that our next-gen antivirus in CloudCare now supports MacOS devices. Avast’s multi-layered protection keeps your customers’ data, devices, and users safe from the newest cyberthreats targeting macOS. …