Jaya Baloo, a 20-year veteran in the field of information security, joined Avast last month as its chief information security officer (CISO). She most recently worked as CISO of KPN, the largest telecommunications carrier in the Netherlands. She has be…
This week a report of hackers gaining access to an Indian nuclear power plant’s computer network led to alarm, confusion, and denial before officials admitted the hack took place. The threat analyst who reported the issue experienced a unique vantage p…
Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher announced on October 30th that the social platform has removed three networks of accounts believed to be misleading users throughout eight countries in Africa – Sudan, Libya, Madagascar, Cen…
Some 20 years ago, the founders of Amazon and Google essentially set the course for how the internet would come to dominate the way we live.
I would like to take a step back to take in a broader, bigger picture than usual in this article, moving across time as well as into the legal sphere. Technology isn’t just hardware and software; it’s a fundamental component of every aspect of our live…
Cybersecurity must find new ways to employ artificial intelligence and make the world safer and more secure, speakers on Friday told the sold-out CyberSec & AI Prague conference hosted by Avast and the Czech Technical University.
Researchers have identified a new strain of ransomware that is spreading around the globe. Bleeping Computer reported that MedusaLocker, as the new strain is called, was first observed in September 2019 and has been steadily infecting more computers ev…
For years Macs were considered relatively safe from cybercrime. No one creates malware for Macs because there are so many more PCs and businesses usually run on PCs, many people believed. Criminals don’t target Macs, the prevailing opinion said. …
When Coldplay goes into the studio, the producer recording the band uses a Mac. When author Stephen King writes spine-tingling novels, he sits down every day to write on a Mac. When Pixar made animated films like “Wall-E” and “Monsters Inc.,” the studi…
When Coldplay goes into the studio, the producer recording the band uses a Mac. When author Stephen King writes spine-tingling novels, he sits down every day to write on a Mac. When Pixar made animated films like “Wall-E” and “Monsters Inc.,” the studi…